Cranbrook Daily Townsman, January 23, 2015

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Cranbrook Williams Moving and Storage still in business Local company under separate ownership than Vancouver-headquartered operation, which has declared bankruptcy

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Williams Moving & Storage Ltd., which includes the Cranbrook and Lethbridge branches, is not affected by the recent announcement that the B.C. and Alberta-wide business has gone

bankrupt. Williams Moving & Storage filed for bankruptcy this week after 86 years in business. Cory Stepney, manager and owner of Williams Moving & Storage (Cranbrook) Ltd. said his business is not af-

fected because it’s under separate ownership from the Vancouver-based company. “Williams Moving & Storage (Cranbrook) Ltd. is a separately owned identity,” Stepney explained. “Everything is run sep-

arately, so we weren’t part of the operating company that had to shut down.” Stepney said that while the news of the storage and moving company’s closing was a surprise, his own employees weren’t wor-

ried about the state of the local business. “All my employees here knew that we were okay no matter what happens — because we are a separate company,” Stepney said. “They all know we’re a separate company and

we have nothing to do with the B.C. division.” Stepney said they are open for business and there are no worries of closing down. “We do storage, moving, commercial … everything,” he said. “Everything’s the same

in the Cranbrook and Lethbridge area.” Coquitlam-headquartered Williams Moving & Storage closed up shop suddenly following a Wednesday afternoon meeting and conference call where they informed employees the company would be filing under the federal Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. A notice posted on the Unifor Local 114 blog said the 3 p.m. meeting and call brought together all its B.C. and Alberta employees where they were informed the company wasn’t making money and that it would close with all its assets to be put up for auction. According to the notice, the company said it “has been trading unprofitably for a period of time and has not been able to restructure appropriately in the current economic and competitive environment,” and that trade and operations would cease as of Wednesday. With files from Vancouver Sun.

It ain’t easy being green

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Josie Ruoss, Mikhela Greiner and Tyra Joe (missing from photo is Robyn Anderson) are urging teens from Kimberley and Cranbrook to Get Outside! See story, page 5

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vation Army hosting the first annual Kootenay Granite Stone Soup Challenge, where seven local chefs from Cranbrook and Kimberley will go head-to-head to make the best stone soup with donated ingredients. Using the head-to-head format popularized by Master Chef, the seven local chefs will put their culinary creativity to the test at the Salvation Army’s soup kitchen, preparing a daily soup for Salvation Army cli-

ents. Soups will be voted on taste, texture, affordability, appearance and nutritional value by the Salvation Army clients. The winners of the soups will move on to the next round. After battling it out over the course of a few weeks, the finalists will face off against each other at a luncheon at the Prestige Rocky Mountain Resort. Participating in the competition

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are; Chef Rusty Cox (The Heid Out Restaurant and Brewhouse), Chef Graham Barnes (Max’s Place), Chef Shelby Schiller (BJ’s Diner and Creekside Pub), Chef Marc Rathpoller (Tuscany’s), Sous Chef Doug Wagner (St. Eugene Mission Resort), Chef Kathy Morey, (Salvation Army) and Chef Barb Smythe (The Roadhouse Grill).

If you are a Vancouver Canucks fan, you should know who the Green Men are. After all, they’ve been pretty visible at Canucks home games over the last few years, doing whatever it is they can to poke fun or distract opposing players when they’re banished to the sin bin. And by visible, I mean really, really visible, because who can miss two people dressed in a skin-tight, neon-green morphsuit?

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Local chefs simmering for soup challenge As the old story goes, a pot of soup big enough to feed a starving village began with someone boiling a stone in hot water. Curious as to why someone was boiling a stone, village members came over to the soup pot and, one by one, began adding ingredients that eventually completed the recipe. That story—known as Aesop’s Fable—is the inspiration for the Sal-

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