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Vol. 64, Issue 57
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Target shuts down Cranbrook operations officially ended Sunday, March 22 TRE VOR CR AWLEY
was a overdose. The woman was brought to hospital. 12:49 p.m. A caller said their vehicle was tampered with after they drove around on new wheels and they fell off. The person thought someone loosened the wheels. Police suspected the wheels had not been properly tightened. 11:56 a.m. A house alarm went off in the Baynes Lake area, so officers from Cranbrook went to check it out. Upon arriving they found the door open and neighbours told them the homeowner had just left and forgot to close to the door.
Target’s time in Cranbrook is officially over. The department store closed it’s doors on Sunday after the U.S.-based company announced the closure of all Canadian locations back in January. The company had been in operation for less than two years after expanding across the U.S.-Canada border in 2013. While rumoured that Canadian operations were not doing well, the decision to pull out of Canada earlier this year came as a shock, according to one local Target employee, who requested anonymity — former Target workers are now engaged in a search for new jobs. “We were like, ‘What? No way?’ because our store was doing really good,” she said. “We didn’t really think about it too much, but then we found out the same morning that everyone else did, too.” The employee, who had been with Target for a while, said some of her fellow employees have been able to find jobs, while others still have a few weeks of pay remaining as part of Target’s compensation package. The Cranbrook store employed roughly 200 people and it will be tough to move on from what she called the best job she’s had.
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STAN SALIKEN PHOTO
Kimberley’s Sophia Hagland, recently returned from Stockholm, Sweden, where she’d been studying music, was one of the performers at Locals Coffeehouse at the Studio Stage Door in Cranbrook. See Page 2 for a special photo feature,
THE WEEK ON THE BEAT
Police check out 170 calls over past week ARNE PETRYSHEN
Cranbrook RCMP received around 170 calls to service for the week of March 16 to 22. Sgt. Brendan McKenna provided the police report this week. March 16 8:44 a.m. A report of noise complaint on 1900 block of 2nd Street North. A group was making noise and apparently smashing things and the apartment manager was frustrated. 3:15 a.m. A single vehicle accident was reported on Hwy 3/95 near the bottom of Steamboat Hill. A vehicle slid on Token Road and ended
up in the ditch. No injuries were reported. 6:54 a.m. A motor vehicle accident occurred in between Cranbrook and Creston. Road conditions were treacherous. A 2007 Chevrolet pickup wound up on it’s side in the middle of the road and was clocking traffic. The vehicle was found to have insufficient tread and the driver was ticketed. The truck was towed away. 7:35 a.m. Police followed up on a driving complaint that stemmed from the week before when a vehicle was reported passing by a school bus while it had its lights and stop sign up. The vehicle was headed in
the opposite direction. Police spoke to the driver of the vehicle and she said that she wasn’t aware that the lights meant vehicles had to stop both ways. 10:52 a.m. A complaint called in about a vehicle passing them on a double solid. Police located the vehicle and driver and were able to issue a ticket based on the statement from the complainant. 12:20 p.m. Police were dispatched to help paramedics with a woman who was in the midst of a medical emergency/possible overdose. The occupants of the residence were not cooperative. It couldn’t be determined whether it