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Pathologist takes stand at Learn trial Autopsy findings discussed in court TRE VOR CR AWLEY

A pathologist and another RCMP officer testified in Cranbrook Supreme Court as the trial for Cheyenne Learn resumed on Monday.

In front of Justice Dev Dley, Dr. Gilles Molgat reported his findings on the autopsy of Tammy Ellis, while Cpl. Eric Barnes testified about his actions the day of and the day after the shooting.

Learn is on trial for the shooting death of Ellis on Dec. 17, 2007. Learn was convicted of second-degree murder in 2009 but the decision was overturned on appeal in 2013 and he was awarded a new trial.

Dr. Molgat, who is based

out of Kamloops, received the body of the deceased three days after the shooting, upon which he performed the autopsy in the presence of two RCMP members.

Crown counsel Lianna Swanson began her questioning of the witness before defence counsel Brent Bagnall cross-examined.

Warning: Details follow that some readers may find too graphic.

The body of the deceased had a wound in the lower left side of the back consistent with an impact from shot pellets fired from a shotgun, according to Dr. Molgat.

See AUTOPSY, Page 3

IH launches ‘My Health is Sexy’ campaign A R N E PE TRYSHEN Townsman Staff

A new campaign launched Monday by Interior Health encourages all adults to get tested for HIV. The “My Health Is Sexy” campaign uses intimate images to convey the message that knowing your HIV status is an important part of a healthy sex life and a good relationship.

It is part of the province’s Seek and Treat for Optimal Prevention of HIV/AIDS (STOP HIV/AIDS) program, which aims to reduce HIV

transmission and improve the health outcomes of those living with HIV. That is done by offering widespread HIV testing, treatment and early engagement into care.

Dr. Trevor Corneil, Medical Health Officer with Interior Health, noted that the treatment actually suppresses the patients viral load.

“If you can do those three things you shouldn’t actually have any new infections,” Dr. Corneil said.

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CAN’T SAY NO TO THE JUICE! Don Nowoselski of No’s Orchard, out of Creston, pours samples of apple and applepear juice at the Cranbrook Farmer’s Market winter market Friday night, Nov. 28. The three-day event drew huge crowds, and featured dozens of vendors. See more, Page 2

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The Cranbrook Farmer’s Market helped launch winter with its fifth Winter Market in downtown Cranbrook — this edition of the popular event running over three days — Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 28-30. The market in the old SuperValu building drew hundreds, and featured more than 70 vendors from Cranbrook and around the region. Marketgoers were able to peruse a wide range of products including potatoes, apples, garlic, beef, pork, lamb, honey, jams and jellies, pickles, locally made teas, cozy hand knit goods, handcrafted jewelry, luxurious body care items, scrumptious baked goods, handmade household and gift items, Christmas cards and ornaments, stained glass, chocolates, teas, and a lot more.

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Chamber turkey drive runs Thursday For the Townsman

The annual Chamber of Commerce turkey drive will be underway on Thursday, Dec. 4.

This is the fourth year for this fundraiser that provides financial support to both the Salvation Army and the Cranbrook Food Bank’s Christmas Hamper program. The Cranbrook & District Chamber of Commerce hopes to raise over $25,000 this year to support these two great organizations.

The Chief Turkey Chair (CTC) is Jason Wheeldon, who spearheaded the original event, and is back at the helm with his co-chair Warren Bedell and several of their Jr. Poults who have been out in the community this past couple of weeks driving pre-pledges from local business and residents.

Our Guest Celebrity program this year has several residents helping out including Nella Rounsville, Denise Pallesen, Heather Smith, Lona Williams, Micheil Hardy, Chris Thom, Tom Shypitka and Liz Chaney seeking pledges for a Turkey.

“There is definitely a rivalry brewing from our celebrity pledgers who want to make sure the need in our community is fulfilled and also to be the top pledge earner,” Wheeldon said.

Last year Nella Rounsville won the friendly competition and this year there is heated competition.

The Turkey Drive concept is simple, residents of the community can pledge a turkey (a donation of $20). The Chamber of Commerce will collect the pledges and remit the proceeds to the Salvation Army and the Food Bank as the revenues are collected. The revenues received will be utilized by the organizations to prepare the Christmas Hampers. The community is invited to take

part in the one day drive on Thursday, Dec. 4, by listening to the Drive FM and calling into the Chamber of Commerce 250-426-5914 to pledge their donation.

Captain Kirk Green of the Salvation Army will be on hand during the one day event and “thanks the Community for their past support” and hopes to see this year’s turkey drive rally as the need in our community is still there.

Between the Cranbrook Food Bank and the Salvation Army over 750 Christmas hampers will be prepared for residents and families in our community. The hampers include more than just a turkey but all of the accessories and meal accompaniment’s to ensure a festive family dinner for all in our community.

Last year over $27,000 was raised which set a new record for the Turkey Drive and this year the organizers want to set a new record.

“This Fundraiser is definitely near and dear to Karin (Penner’s) heart and this is her last year with the Chamber and we want to send her out with a bang,” said Cathy Bauer one of the Chamber staff who administers the pledge drive.

The Turkey Drive got its start when Penner, Wheeldon and friends found out there was a shortage in the community and that some families would not be receiving Christmas Hampers.

Employing the Chamber of Commerce network volunteers and chamber staff phone lines were lit up and the need in our community was fulfilled within 5 hours. The Turkey Drive continues to this day because the need in our community is still there.

The Chamber invites the entire community on Thursday December 4 to pledge their support with a Turkey Pledge by phoning 250-426-5914.

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Cranbrook City Hall was briefly evacuated Monday morning, after the odour of gas was detected. City staff repaired to Max’s Place while Fire and Emergency Services checked out the premises, eventually giving the all clear to return.

Autopsy results revealed at trial Continued from page 1

Dr. Molgat removed a number of pellets lodged within the body and described their trajectory in relation to the corresponding physical injuries.

He ruled the eventual cause of death was arrhythmia, caused by shotgun pellets damaging the heart, which caused it to stop beating.

In addition to the shot pellets, Dr. Molgat also found ‘shot-wad’ material — used in the construction of shotgun shells — in the wound.

Dr. Molgat also concluded that the wound was caused by a shotgun fired closerange between three to four feet away from the body.

In cross examination, Bagnall leaned more on Dr. Molgat’s expertise as a medical

doctor to solicit opinion evidence regarding the affects of longterm alcohol abuse on the human body.

Dr. Molgat noted that in addition to the typical short-term signs of alcohol consumption, such as unsteadiness or slurred speech, there are more serious effects for long-term abuse.

Those effects physical damage to internal organs such as cirrhosis of the liver and hypertension while more serious neurological damage includes symptoms that could be attributed to dementia.

Bagnall brought up issues of tolerance and Dr. Molgat explained that it differs on a caseby-case basis, but also added that tolerance can be increased based on sustained al-

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cohol abuse, including the practice of binge-drinking.

Dr. Molgat testified that heavy alcohol abuse can cause someone to be disinhibited and interfere with their ability to reason.

Bagnall also suggested that heavy alcohol abuse can cause blackouts, where a person appears to be functioning but has no memory of their actions following significant alcoholic consumption.

Following testimony from Dr. Molgat, Barnes took the stand.

Swanson led off the questioning, as Barnes described his actions the night of the shooting and the day after, where he attended the residence of the scene as well as another scene where a firearm was located and later deter-

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mined to be the same one used in the incident.

Barnes arrived on scene roughly and hour and a half after the shooting, but was told to stand down and wait until officers from a Major Crimes Unit from the Interior to arrive.

On Dec. 18, 2007, Barnes attended the scene on 4th street at a bridge covering Joseph Creek behind the B.C. Liquor store where a civilian passerby had discovered a firearm in the snowbank.

He photographed the area and the weapon — a sawed-off shotgun — before picking it up and disarming it.

Later on in the investigation, he checked the weapon for fingerprints, but none were found.

He later attended the residence where the

shooting occurred, taking pictures continuously as he moved from room to room.

Upon cross-examination, Bagnall noted the components of the firearm were located on opposite sides of the bridge and described how he detached the barrel from the handle portion to disarm it.

Upon further questioning from Bagnall regarding the residence, Barnes testified that both TV’s located in the living room and the bedroom of the house were on, with the volume low in the latter, but was unable to recall if the former was audible.

The trial will resume on Wednesday and both sides are hoping to be done by the end of the week.

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CFUW marks anniversary of Dec. 6 tragedy For the Townsman

On Canada’s National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence

Against Women, the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) Cranbrook will

be commemorating the 14 young women who were senselessly murdered at École Polytech-

Interior Health launches campaign Continued from page 1 However one of the problems is that though doctors know where the high prevalence of HIV infections lie — Corneil noted gay men, sex workers, drug users, Aboriginals, immigrants and refugees — there is another 20 per cent out there that doesn’t know they have HIV, and doesn’t fit into those categories.

“We’ve moved from a risk activity type of screening for HIV to actually screening everybody for HIV,” he said.

“There’s an education campaign for physicians and health care providers around how to begin screening people in a different way.”

He said 25 years ago an HIV diagnosis was the equivalent of a death sentence, but advances in treatment have transformed HIV into a chronic, manageable disease.

“It is much better to know you are HIV positive than not to know, because the treatment is remarkable,” he said.

The treatment reduces the level of HIV in the blood to undetectable levels thus improving the health of people

with HIV, and decreases the level of HIV in sexual fluids to undetectable levels thus reducing the likelihood of HIV transmission by more than 95 per cent.

Development of programs like STOP HIV/AIDS have expanded HIV testing, identifying more people infected with the disease and enabling them to get proper, life-saving treatment.

STOP HIV/AIDS began in 2009 as a four-year, $48-million pilot in Vancouver’s inner city and Prince George. The pilot strategy involved widespread HIV testing and earlier access to highly active antiretroviral therapy to those medically eligible.

In 2012, the Province of British Columbia announced $19.9 million in annual funding to expand the initiative throughout B.C. Approximately 77,000 Canadians are currently living with HIV, representing an increase of 5,700 people (eight per cent) since 2011. An estimated 18,500 people living with HIV in Canada remain undiagnosed and unaware of their HIV status.

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“As we take pause to reflect on the inequality and beliefs that caused the École Polytechnique tragedy 25 years ago, we are reminded that violence continues to be a reality for far too many women and girls in our community and across Canada every day,” said Cathryn Henley, President of CFUW Cranbrook.

One in three women in Canada will experience some form of gender-based violence in their lifetime.

Not only does violence jeopardize the security and wellbeing of women and girls, it also has a large economic impact on survivors and Canada as a whole. Sta-

tistics Canada and others have estimated the cost of intimate partner violence and sexual violence at $7.4 and $1.9 billion respectively, including the costs of social services, healthcare, the justice system, and lost productivity.

“Violence against Women is an issue of great importance to CFUW Cranbrook,” Henley said.

Each year, CFUW National also offers École Polytechnique Commemorative Awards, totaling $12,000, to two outstanding graduate students whose research or area of study is related to women.

“CFUW believes that Canada must look for comprehensive solutions to help address the

root causes of gender-based violence”, said Doris Mae Oulton, CFUW National President. “That is why we are calling on all federal political parties to support the creation of a National Action Plan on Violence against Women and Girls”.

The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon has called on all member states to develop National Action Plans on Violence against Women and Girls by 2015. States such as Australia have already developed comprehensive plans — the Government of Canada however, has denied the need here. A recent report by the Canadian Network of Women’s Shelters and Transition Houses, “The

Case for a National Action Plan on Violence against Women,” shows otherwise.

CFUW Cranbrook has been active in the East Kootenay for 33 years, has a $64,000 perpetual scholarship and bursary program at the College of the Rockies.

CFUW is a non-partisan, voluntary, self-funded organization with over 100 CFUW Clubs, located in every province across Canada. Since its founding in 1919, CFUW has been working to improve the status of women, and to promote human rights, public education, social justice, and peace.

For more information, please go to our website at www. cfuw-cranbrook.com

At the Cranbrook Library

New mysteries by Stuart Woods, James Rollins, David Baldacci, Kelly Armstrong and Stephen King are here for your cold weather reading.

Younger readers can lose themselves in Simon Beercroft’s brightly illustrated ‘LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary’.

FOOD FOR FINES: For the entire month of December, the Library will be accepting donations of nonperishable food as payment for overdue fines. One item will be worth one dollar of fines. Any canned or boxed nonperishable food items will be accepted. All donations will be delivered to the food bank throughout the holiday season. This is a great way to get rid of those pesky overdue fines while helping others in need.

Need some reading material? Going on a holiday? Then check out the Friends of the Library bookshelves by the checkout counter. There’s a wide variety of fiction and mystery paperbacks and for $2 you can’t go wrong.

Preschool Story Time is this Wednesday at 11 am, 1:15 pm, & 6:30 pm, and Toddler Story Time is 10 and 11 am. Both will be all about Dogs!

There is much more than this happening at the Library. Please check out our website and Facebook pages for more information and updates.

Adult Newly Acquired: Sapiens – Yuval N. Harari Walking Home – Sonia Choquette Tax Survival for Canadians – Dale Barrett Losing Patience: Shaken Baby Syndrome – James Peinkofer Cultivating Garden Style – Rochelle Greayer How to Prepare for the GED Test – Chris Smith

Mike Selby Bennett on Consumer Bankruptcy – Frank Bennett The Republic of Imagination – Azar Nafisi The Secret History of Wonder Woman – Jill Lepore Healthy Joins for Life – Richard Diana Belonging – Adrienne Clarkson Brick City – Warren Elsmore A Deadly Wandering – Matt Richtel Fiction A Sudden Light – Garth Stein Beneath the Darkening Sky – Majok Tulba Five Days Left – Julie Lawson Timmer The Mill River Redemption – Darcie Chan Janet of Kootenay – Evah McKowan Island of a Thousand Mirrors – Nayomi Munaweera Revival – Stephen King Adultery – Paulo Coelho Full Measure – T. Jefferson Parker Skin of the Wolf – Sam Cabot The 6th Extinction – James Rollins Mystery Far Gone – Laura Griffin Peter Pan Must Die – John Verdon The Bones Beneath – Mark Billingham The Escape – David Baldacci Fatal Conceit – Robert K. Tanebaum Paris Match – Stuart Woods Windigio Island – William Krueger Visions – Kelly Armstrong

An Unwilling Accomplice – Charles Todd DVD Modern Family: Complete Second Season Orange is the New Black: Season One Oklahoma!

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B.C. power decision a dam dilemma It’s Site C vs. independent power producers, debt vs. multi-year contractual obligations

As

decision day approaches, the B.C. Liberals face two main choices to meet the province’s future electricity needs, both controversial.

“I can tell you that we’re down now to essentially two options, one of which is Site C and one of which is the independent power project option,” Energy Minister Bill Bennett told reporters recently.

The first option would see BC Hydro construct a last-of-its-kind hydroelectric dam at Site C on the Peace River.

The second would entail Hydro contracting with private operators to build smaller-scale power projects — wind, run of river, perhaps biomass and geothermal — that would be scattered around the province.

In disclosing the final two options, Bennett tacitly confirmed that the Liberals have dropped consideration of building either a new gas-fired generating plant or refurbishing the little-used thermal plant on Burrard Inlet.

Each of the two remaining options has its proponents and — no surprise, this being British Columbia — each also raises ferocious objections. Anything one might say on this file is debatable, including this statement.

The pluses for Site C, as the government sees them, are that hydro is the proven method of electrical generation in this province and it provides some of the cheapest rates on the continent. Once the construction cost has been paid out, hydro dams are reliable for the long-term and there’s no need to estimate the future cost of fuel, as with a gas-fired plant.

For the Liberals, independent power projects have their good points too. “I don’t think there’s any issue around the reliabili-

ty of the independent power industry,” Bennett told reporters. “It’s a good industry. We’re actually very proud to have it. We get 25 per cent of our electricity today in the province from the IPP industry.”

The industry, in a recent analysis (the one prepared, then withdrawn by KPMG), cited some other advantages of smaller-scale projects over the all-or-nothing aspect of Site C. IPPs could be phased in over time and spread around the province.

Hydro could contract for range of power sources, including unproven-for-B.C. options such as geothermal.

Bennett, for his part, insists that the deciding factor between the two options should be the impact of each on future electricity rates. “We have to make a decision here that will have implications for many, many decades to the people who live in the provVaughn ince, to the businesses that Palmer operate here. We have to try to do everything we can to keep rates down, and that’s the basis upon which we’ll make this choice.”

But having seen competing analyses on that score over the years, I doubt there’s an indisputable answer to the question raised

by Bennett. It all depends on the assumptions one makes going in and going forward.

Besides, other considerations have to be weighed, including the veto-in-all-butname that First Nations exercise over resource development in this province.

One advantage for independent power involves the emerging role in such projects for First Nations as partners, developers and suppliers of services. By comparison, natives in the Peace River region have mounted a strong legal case that Site C would cause irreparable damage to aborig-

inal rights, title and interests.

Another factor is the impact on the provincial debt. IPPs don’t entail a lot of provincial borrowing. They are underwritten in large measure by long-term contracts, which by verdict of the independent auditor general (applying generally accepted accounting principles) are listed in the public accounts as $56 billion-and-counting worth of multi-year contractual obligations but not as debt.

Not so with BC Hydro. Because of the corporation’s already hefty debt load, and the government’s practice of raiding its accounts for dividends, the giant utility will have to borrow much of what it estimates to be the cost of Site C, namely $8 billion.

The province is already constrained in how much more it can borrow, according to Finance Minister Mike de Jong. “I don’t think we have a lot of room to move at this point,” he told me during an interview Thursday on Voice of B.C. on Shaw TV. “Those rating agencies that assess us increasingly look at other variables and other measures ... The distinction that has historically been made by these agencies between taxpayer-supported debt and the debt incurred by agencies like BC Hydro, which is self-supporting, is beginning to blur in the minds of some of these bodies.

So I’m saying we have to be cautious.”

Plus if Hydro is green-lighted to borrow billions for Site C, there will be that much less borrowing room for everything else. “It will likely crowd out many other projects,” de Jong continued.

Not to say that debt-loading or First Nations will trump all other considerations.

Only that when the Liberals say this is one of the toughest and most expensive decisions they’ve faced, they mean it.

Vaughn Palmer is a columnist with the Vancouver Sun

Canadian homicide rate hits 1966 level C anadian Press

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the country’s homicide rate fell last year to 1.44 victims for every 100,000 people, its lowest level since 1966.

The agency says the 2013 rate was eight per cent lower than in 2012.

It says police reported 505 homicides in 2013, down 38 from the previous year.

Quebec reported 68 homicides in 2013, representing a rate of 0.83 per 100,000 population, the lowest rate recorded in the province since reporting began in 1961.

Six provinces reported modest increases in the number of homicides in 2013, although even with these in-

creases, the homicide rates in nearly every province and territory were below their 10-year averages in 2013.

The exceptions were Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island, where the 2013 homicide rates were above their previous 10-year average.

Homicide rates continued to be highest in the West and the North. Provincially, Manitoba reported the highest homicide rate with 3.87 per 100,000 population, followed

by Saskatchewan with 2.71, Alberta at 2.04 and B.C. with 1.66.

Among metropolitan areas, Regina reported the highest homicide rate at 3.84 per 100,000 population, followed

by Winnipeg and Thunder Bay. Homicide rates were below the national average in the two largest metropolitan areas, as Toronto had a rate of 1.34 and Montreal was at 1.08. Vancouver, at 1.72, was above the national average.

Firearm-related homicides were down, but fatal stabbings increased. There were 131 homicides tied to guns in 2013, down 41 from 2012. Shooting still accounted for about a quarter of homicides.

Most gun-related homicides were committed with handguns, a trend that has held over the last 20 years. Despite this, the rate of handgun-related homicides reached its lowest point since 1998.

The number of fatal stabbings grew by 31 cases, to 195 deaths. Knives accounted for about 40 per cent of all homicides.

Gang-related homicides fell to 85 in 2013, compared with 96 reported the previous year.

The victims in almost 90 per cent of homicides knew their killers. The rate of stranger homicide was at its lowest level in over 40 years.

The number of victims of homicide committed by a current or former spouse, common-law partner, dating partner or other intimate partner decreased in 2013. There were 68 intimate partner homicides reported in 2013, 14 fewer than in the previous year.

Extinction theory revised; mastodon bones older than thought C anadian Press

VANCOUVER — Scientists who re-examined the fossils of mastodons that once roamed what is now the Yukon and Alaska have revised their likely cause of death, concluding global cooling probably wiped out the ancient cousin of the elephant.

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Earlier estimates dated the mastodon bones at about 14,000 years old, but Grant Zazula, a paleontologist in the Yukon Paleontology Program, says the fossils are now believed to be about 75,000 years old.

Instead of dying off at the end of the ice age, as first be-

lieved, Zazula says it’s more likely the mastodons migrated to the area during a warming trend and then died when they couldn’t survive the cold.

He says the earlier theorized extinction date - at the end of the ice age - was suspect for experts because mastodons were adapted to warmer con-

ditions.

Zazula says the discovery is another piece of the puzzle in the disappearance of the massive creatures, and raises more questions about the extinctions of other animals presumed to have died off at the end of the ice age.

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UPCOMING

2014 FREE PUBLIC SWIM Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 5:00-6:00pm is sponsored by Tyee Homes.

Sing in the Season with Cranbrook Elementary Schools Christmas Choir, Wed. Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. Alliance Church. All welcome.

Admission by donation.

Cranbrook Kimberley Hospice Society Memory Tree of Love, Tamarack Mall, Dec. 4 to 6 and 11 to 13. Remember a passed loved one with a snowflake for a donation to the Hospice Society.

Annual Cookie Walk at Cranbrook United Church (downtown church at the corner of Baker Street and 12th Ave.) Dec. 6, 2014. Doors open at noon, Sales from 1 pm – 3 pm. Admission covers container & glove.

REMEMBER ME - Candlelight Vigil for the Day of Remembrance and Action to End Violence Against Women Saturday, December 6th - 6:30pm at the Cranbrook Women’s Centre (in the Backyard Gardens) 209A – 16th Ave. N. (Beside Core Fitness).

Refreshments following the Vigil. ALL ARE WELCOME. Saturday Dec. 6; Girl Guides of Canada Spaghetti Dinner, Silent Auction and Bake Sale, Eagles Hall - 711 Kootenay St. 4:306:30pm. Info: Pam 250-489-3155.

Kimberley Community Choir invites you to a special & fun Christmas evening for family and friends. Sing-A-Long with the Kimberley Community Choir, Saturday Dec. 6, 7:00 pm. Saint Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 97 Boundary St., Kimberley.

Admission by donation. Intermission refreshments served.

Children’s Christmas Concert, Sunday Dec 7, 6:30 p.m. Marysville Community Church, 730-302 St., Marysville. Everyone welcome.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints welcomes all to a Live, Outdoor Nativity; Monday Dec. 15 & Tuesday Dec. 16 at 7:00 pm. 2210 - 2nd St. N., Cranbrook. Free & open to the public.

Refreshments served.

2014 FREE FAMILY SWIM Wednesday, Dec 17th, 6:00-7:00pm is sponsored by Kimberley Rotary Club. Persons 18 years & younger must be accompanied by an adult.

ONGOING Seniors Autobiographical Writing for those aged 60 or wiser at the Kimberley Library. No writing experience necessary. It’s free.

Tuesdays 10:00 - Noon. Register: Kim Roberts CBAL Coordinator 250-427-4468 or kroberts@cbal.org The Cellar Thrift Store Open Mon. to Sat., noon to 4:30 p.m. Our revenues support local programs and outreach programs of Cranbrook United Church. Baker Lane Entry at 2 – 12th Ave. S. Cranbrook, B. C. Donations of new or gently used items welcome.

CRANBROOK QUILTERS’ GUILD hold their meetings every 2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month at 7:15pm upstairs in the Seniors’ Hall, 12517th Ave. S. Everyone welcome. Info: Donna at 250-426-7136.

Cranbrook Phoenix Toastmasters meet every Thursday, noon -1:00 Heritage Inn. Toastmasters teaches communication & leadership skills. Roberta 250-489-0174. 1911.toastmastersclubs.org.

The Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation invites anyone expecting bone and joint surgery to make contact with local volunteers for peer support. The free Ortho Connect program helps to ease the fear, stress and anxiety that go along with surgery and help patients prepare. 1-800-461-3639 ext 4, and ask for Lauralee.

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Nisga’a prove their critics wrong It has been 15 years since I wrote a commentary objecting to the B.C. government pushing aside its own hard-won treaty process to reach an unprecedented landand-cash settlement with the Nisga’a Nation for their ancient Nass River territory.

My objection, and that of many others, was the imposition of a parallel state with collectively owned land enshrined for all time. This was an ailing NDP government rushing to enable a property ownership system that has demonstrated little but failure and suffering around the world.

The Nisga’a are proving me wrong, and this was again demonstrated at a little-noticed ceremony at the B.C. legislature last week.

The B.C. government had just passed amendments to allow a gas pipeline through Nisga’a Memorial Lava Bed Park, the first co-managed provincial park in B.C. history. Another bill enabled the Nisga’a Lisims government to impose industrial property tax on liquefied natural gas production. Legal documents were signed so the Nisga’a legislature can do the same this week.

In recent years, the Nisga’a disposed of concern about collective land restrictions by adopting a private property system. And Supreme Court of Canada decisions have repeatedly answered protests about the

establishment of a parallel state – that’s what it is, so get used to it.

The Nisga’a have moved to assemble four fee-simple tidewater sites for LNG terminals, joining the Haisla Nation at Kitimat in reaching aggressively for a modern economy through gas export. The Nisga’a have partnered with TransCanada Corp. on a 900-km pipeline BC VIEWS to supply the $11-billion LNG project led by Petronas Tom for the Prince Rupert port.

Fletcher And they don’t intend to stop there.

“We want to be part of the Canadian business establishment,” said former Nisga’a Nation president Joe Gosnell.

The signing ceremony was briefly disrupted by one of a small group of Vancouver-based Nisga’a who have been using modern protest tactics against this decision. We weren’t consulted, it’s a desecration of victims of a volcanic eruption, it’s a threat to eelgrass beds, and so forth, say well-rehearsed young men with video cameras running.

Nisga’a President Mitchell Stevens has patiently and repeatedly explained that Nisga’a legislature rules were relaxed to allow every hereditary chief to speak to elected leaders on this pivotal move. After that it received the required two-thirds majority support.

Gosnell, the revered chief negotiator

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who carried the treaty over the goal line in 2000, moved slowly with the help of an ornately carved cane to speak at a reception.

He seemed genuinely surprised that he has lived long enough to see the fruits of generations of labour.

Gosnell recounted the 1887 paddling trip down the B.C. coast from the Nass Valley to Victoria to present the Nisga’a territorial claim, where the tribal leaders were turned away on the steps of the legislature by Premier William Smithe. It would take until 1910 for Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier to promise a settlement, and until 1949 for Nisga’a Chief Frank Calder to be elected to the B.C. legislature.

In 2000, when the treaty received royal assent in Ottawa, Gosnell took part in a ceremonial burning of the Indian Act and got to work on implementing self-government.

And on Nov. 27, 2014, B.C. Liberal, NDP and independent MLAs voted unanimously to open the way to an industrial future for the Nisga’a.

“That’s what being alive means to me today,” Gosnell said. “You’ve got to have big dreams. Maybe all those dreams won’t come true, but at least you have the ability to dream big. And boy, are we ever dreaming big.”

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

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The DMK Drilling Fluids Kootenay Nitros (black sweaters) pose for a group photo with Team Mexico following the Tier 1 championship at the Wickenheiser World Female Hockey Festival in Calgary, Alta., Nov. 30. The Nitros placed second, falling 4-0 to Mexico in the tournament finale.

Wicked good time Kootenay Nitros second at Wickenheiser Female World Hockey Festival Townsman Staff

The DMK Drilling Fluids Kootenay Nitros midget female hockey team made the trek to Calgary this past weekend, placing second at the Wickenheiser Female World Hockey Festival.

Coached by Brad Park and Rob Rice, the Nitros faced Mexico Midget A in the tournament championship, falling 4-0 Sunday afternoon at the Markin MacPhail Centre in Calgary.

McKenna Nelson, of Invermere, stood tall between the pipes all weekend long for the Nitros.

Caylee Lazar and Lilly McLaren led the way on offense for the Kootenay ladies, as each tallied two goals and

two assists over the course of the tournament. Sam Scheller chipped in with a goal and two assists as well.

Claudia Tellez provided the offensive flair for Mexico in the championship game, opening the scoring midway through the second period before adding two more tallies to complete the hat-trick. Tellez factored into all four of Mexico’s goals, earning the primary assist on a Frida Cardenas’ second-period tally.

Renteria registered the championship shutout in net for Mexico.

After opening the tournament Nov. 28 with a 3-1 victory over the Red Deer Chiefs, the Nitros followed up with a resounding 6-2 triumph over the Big Sky

Wildcats. Bailey Park tallied the game-winning marker against Red Deer, while Scheller registered the deciding tally against Big Sky. In the team’s lone game Nov. 29, the Nitros got past the Calgary Steelers 3-1. The two teams did all their scoring in the first period as Ashley Dubois’ goal stood as the eventual winner.

The final game of round-robin play proved to be a preview of the championship as the Nitros and Mexico battled to a scoreless draw Nov. 30. Nelson and Mexico goaltender Monica Renteria were both flawless between the pipes.

The Kootenay Nitros are a Cranbrook-based team comprised of girls 15 to 17 years old.

2014-15 DMK Drilling Fluids Kootenay Nitros Maren Anderson (Kimberley) Caisey Cox (Cranbrook) Erica Donald (Cranbrook) Ashley Dubois (Invermere) Lisa DuToit (Kimberley) Jessica Hutchison (Fernie) Kelly Klein (Elkford) Nichole Klein (Elkford) Caylee Lazar (Cranbrook) Marhyn MacSteven (Invermere)

Lilly McLaren (Kimberley) McKenna Nelson (Invermere) Jazlyn Oaks (Invermere) Jessica Owen (Kimberley) Bailey Park Wasyn Rice (Invermere) Samantha Scheller (Jaffray) Annah Setter (Golden) Kennedy Sterzer (Kimberley)

Mariners close to signing slugger Cruz Tim Booth Associated Press

SEATTLE - The Mariners are on the verge of landing the right-handed slugger they were seeking for the middle of their batting order Free agent Nelson Cruz and Seattle are nearing agreement, two people

with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press Monday. The pair spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deal is pending a physical.

El Caribe in the Dominican Republic reported the agreement, saying it was worth $57 million over for four years. Seattle did not comment.

Eddie Mountain high Kimberley Dynamiters host Golden Rockets in divisional tilt

Taylor Rocc a Sports Editor

The Kimberley Dynamiters face another tall divisional task Tuesday evening when they host the Golden Rockets.

The two squads have spent much of the past month leap-frogging one another in the ultra-competitive Eddie Mountain Division. In recent weeks, the Rockets have earned points in seven consecutive games to pull ahead of the Nitros, taking a firm hold on second place in the division behind the Fernie Ghostriders (194-1-1).

“They’re very wellcoached,” said Kimberley Dynamiters head coach Jerry Bancks Monday afternoon.

“System-wise, they’re very similar to us. You can’t take any shortcuts.

We have to play our sys-

tem as well as they will play theirs and outwork them.”

The two teams have split four meetings to this point in the campaign. The Rockets earned victories on home ice Oct. 4 and Nov. 21, while the Nitros edged the Rockets on the road Oct. 17, before using home-ice advantage for a 6-4 victory Nov. 1.

Tuesday’s tilt will be the first for the Dynamiters since a 4-1 setback at the hands of the Fernie Ghostriders Friday night. The onegame weekend allowed Bancks and his squad to get some much needed rest and regroup for a busy December.

“Having Saturday and Sunday off was really healthy for the team,” Bancks said. “We’ve played a lot of hockey lately, had a lot of people sick and banged up

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GAME TIME: 7 P.M. (MT) GOLDEN ROCKETS vs.

KIMBERLEY DYNAMITERS (16-10-0-4) RECORD (13-11-1-2) Second (Eddie Mountain) DIVISION Third (Eddie Mountain) 114 GF 110 119 GA 93 14th (13.6%) PP T-5th (20.8%) 12th (82.5%) PK Third (87.4%) I. Desrosier (21-18-39) TOP SCORER J. Richter (21-12-32) M. Viberg (3.70 GAA) TOP GOALIE T. Brouwer (2.95 GAA) W2 STREAK L1 6-2 W vs. CVR LAST GAME 4-1 L vs. FER Dec. 5 vs. NEL NEXT GAME Dec. 5 at CTC

so it was nice to get some days off.”

Forward Braden Saretsky is in Kimberley and expected to play Tuesday night after being acquired from the Summerland Steam in exchange for Tyson Klingspohn Friday evening.

Bancks expects to utilize the 18-year-old native of West Kelowna in his top six, as well as on one of his two pow-

er-play units.

Saretsky tallied five goals and 13 points in 19 games with the Steam prior to the trade.

Though not set in stone, Bancks said his early plan places Saretsky between veteran wingers Jared Marchi and Jason Richter.

The Rockets and Dynamiters face-off at 7 p.m. at the Kimberley Civic Centre.

Seahawks control fate in NFC West Tim Booth Associated Press

RENTON, Wash. During a long weekend of rest, the Seattle Seahawks got the help they needed to take control of their own fate in the NFC West race.

And to top it off, coach Pete Carroll added a lighthearted quip at the expense of the rival 49ers.

Following the Seahawks’ dominating 19-3 win over San Francisco that improved Seattle to

8-4, 49ers CEO Jed York tweeted an apology to fans saying, “This performance wasn’t acceptable.”

When asked what his reaction would be if Seattle owner Paul Allen ever tweeted a similar message after a game, Carroll grinned.

“Our owner would never do that,” Carroll said tongue-in-cheek.

And once the chuckling subsided, Carroll added, “I would never comment on that.”

The atmosphere around Seattle changed in a short time. When Seattle returned from its 24-20 loss at Kansas City in Week 11, the Seahawks were 6-4, three games out of first place in the NFC West and about to begin a rugged five-day stretch facing division foes Arizona and San Francisco. They were on the cusp of falling out of the division race and potentially the playoff picture.

Two weeks later, the

Seahawks are in playoff position and, more importantly, control their own destiny in the division thanks to Arizona’s loss on Sunday at Atlanta. If Seattle wins its final four games - beginning Sunday at Philadelphia - it wins the division.

“One of the things that you love in competition is that you control your own future,” Carroll said. “We have an opportunity to do that and we have to do that one day at a time.”

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Zero in on what is important to you, not on what someone else considers important. Your wit and charm allow you to move a person from Point A to Point B with little effort. A meeting could be essential, even though you might feel limited. Tonight: Love the moment.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Pressure seems to build when dealing with an authority figure.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Your ability to see past the obvious comes through once more.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Deal with others directly, and you’ll have a more receptive audience. You intuitively seem to know what others need to hear, but you also know how to present an issue. Communication could be off if you are not around once discussions begin. Tonight: Be with a favorite person.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You won’t be able to contain your energy. If you are single, you are likely to meet someone who causes your heart to flutter.

You might want to revisit a personal matter with a loved one, as you two could see it differently. Tonight: No one will try to hold you back.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Be clear about what is important to you in a changeable situation. You might make more

of a personal matter than is necessary. Take a step back and rethink a recent decision. A loved one could come through for you in a big way. Tonight: Hang with a favorite person.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You are likely to say exactly what you think. Fortunately, your audience will be in a good mood. You could be holding back important information about a family matter. When you are sure of the facts, it would be wise to open up. Tonight: Invite someone to join you for dinner.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You can get only so much done in a day. Try not to push yourself so hard. Keep a firm hand on your financial budget; otherwise, you easily could become distracted and make a mistake. Prioritize, and you will be pleased with the results.

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I questioned my husband, and he said our loan kept Cary out of bankruptcy, so I dropped the subject. Last year, Cary told my husband he still wasn’t able to pay back any of the money, and my generous husband said he’d forgive the loan altogether. I found out about this when we planned a trip to Cary’s area. I told my husband I didn’t want to visit Cary because he’d made no attempt to pay back any of the loan, and that’s when my husband dropped the bombshell.

I am angry that my husband didn’t discuss either of these decisions with me. He has worked hard for his money, and we’ve had many ups and downs financially. We don’t take extravagant vacations, my car is eight years old, and we are paying three college tuitions. My sister is struggling, too, and I would love to help her, but wouldn’t even consider it without talking it over with my husband. I don’t understand how anyone could borrow money with no intention of paying it back. How can Cary sleep at night?

Should I call Cary and express my disappointment that he’s taken advantage of his best friend? -- Loser Friends Dear Friends: Your problem isn’t Cary. It’s a husband who thinks he should be making major financial choices without consulting his life partner. He didn’t want to get into a disagreement with you, so he made a unilateral decision. It’s also possible he believes that if the money comes from his salary, it’s his to do with as he chooses. For minor purchases, that’s fine, but $25,000 could put a dent in his family’s living situation and affects all of you. You need to discuss this with him, calmly, and explain why his actions were both hurtful and disrespectful. If he cannot understand your position, ask him to come with you to see a counselor who can mediate. We wouldn’t want this to happen again.

Dear Annie: I have a plea for anyone who has a pool, pond or other body of water around their home. This past Monday, my beautiful, active, mobile 11-month-old grandson got out of the house and fell into the koi pond. Instead of planning his first birthday, we are planning his funeral.

Please, if you have any type of standing water, put a fence around it. No parent, grandparent or sibling should go through what we are dealing with right now, especially for something so preventable. -- A Grieving Grandmother in Redondo Beach, Calif.

Dear Grieving: This is so heartbreaking.

Please know that your words of warning will save a life. Little children can drown in very little water, and they do not have the understanding or the physical dexterity to avoid a tragedy. And no matter how closely you watch your child, accidents happen.

Readers, whether the children are yours or someone else’s, fence off these areas or keep them behind lock and key so they are safe for everyone. Our deepest condolences to your family.

Dear Annie: I read of so many happy reunions with birth parents, but I certainly did not have one.

I found my birth mother when I was 35. I discovered a half-brother who didn’t know about me and resented me a great deal. We have no contact. My birth mother lied to me with three different stories about why I was adopted. She stayed with me for a week, demanded all of my time and expected to hug me constantly. I did not care for her “concern” after 35 years.

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