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Crews from B.C.’s Wildfire Management Branch gathered at St. Mary Prairie to conduct a prescribed burn on Sunday, April 19. Pictured here are members of the Rocky Mountain, Flathead, and Invermere unit crews who converged on site to assist. Crews were monitoring the area again Monday and extinguishing any hot spots within the fire’s perimeter. See more, Page 3.

Students heading to Africa

Sydney Hug and Vicky Deraspe to volunteer at Zimbabwe orphanage for three weeks TRE VOR CR AWLEY

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The B.C. government has completed the first season of a five-year targeted cull of grey wolf populations.

Of caribou and wolves TOM FLETCHER Black Press

The B.C. government has killed 11 wolves in the South Selkirk Mountains and another 73 in the South Peace region in the first year of a five-year plan to protect dwindling caribou herds.

The South Selkirk pro-

gram left seven to 10 wolves alive because they were not targeting caribou, and their movements continue to be tracked. That mountain caribou herd is down to 14, compared to 18 last year and 46 in 2009.

See WOLF CULL, Page 4

Two Cranbrook high school students are headed to Africa on the trip of a lifetime.

Sydney Hug and Vicky Deraspe—two Grade 11 students currently attending Mount Baker Secondary School—will be off to Zimbabwe in a few months to volunteer at an orphanage for three weeks.

Hug was the initiator of the plan to go overseas and volunteer after a friend of hers, who is a humanitarian worker, suggested a couple programs.

From there, she roped in Deraspe to share in the adventure.

“It was a program that was recommended to Sydney by a really good friend from a camp she goes to in the summer,” Deraspe said. “We did some research on it and and she said, ‘Hey, you want to go to Africa with me?’”

TREVOR CRAWLEY PHOTO

Sydney Hug (left) and Vicky Deraspe are off to Zimbabwe this summer.

They are heading to Victoria Falls in June and will volunteer at a primary school where they will be helping students in class-

rooms from kindergarten to Grade 6.

“I think just seeing the culture and being able to understand people who

are in such a different culture than us will be really good for me,” added Hug.

See STUDENTS, Page 4

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hoods, streets, schools and public areas including in and around business premises.

All of the schools within the City of Cranbrook have been actively involved in cleaning up their school yards each year with loads of

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Students to work in Zimbabwe orphanage Continued from page 1 They were able to set up travel to Africa through a program called GoEco and found their volunteer opportunity through African Impact.

“I’m really excited to

meet all the kids because we’ve watched a bunch of videos about African Impact and 95 per cent of the people say what they enjoyed most was the people they met,” said Deraspe.

The two will be spending six days a week volunteering in the classroom helping out with schoolwork and will have one day to go out and explore Victoria Falls and the surrounding area.

Africa is a big place with plenty of opportunities to volunteer, but Zimbabwe seemed like the obvious choice after doing some research.

“For my family, for sure, it was one of the

Coal industry comes to Cranbrook Council

safer projects,” said Hug. “…It’s got a really good reputation, especially that specific program for volunteer safety and things like that. That was a big factor for my mom.”

Added Deraspe: “For our original program, we originally going to

South Africa to a little town called St. Lucia.

But then after we did a little research, we figured Zimbabwe would be the better choice.”

The two girls will be paying for an extra bag each to take on the airliner that will be packed with all kinds of school and medical supplies

that they intend to leave in the community.

If anyone is interested in donating money or school supplies, medical supplies, clothing, books or anything at all, contact Amanda at amandaball78@hotmail.com or Sydney at syddy.buggs@gmail. com.

Arne Petryshen

Representatives from the Coal Alliance — an industry group that promotes the coal industry in B.C. — asked Cranbrook council to publicly support the province’s coal industry.

At the Monday, April 13, city council meeting, Alan Fryer, who does communications work for the Coal Alliance, spoke to council about the alliance. Nic Milligan, from Teck Resources, Mike LoVecchio, Canadian Pacific and Troy Cook from the United Steelworkers, also involved in the Coal Alliance, were in attendance at the meeting.

Fryer said the alliance began in 2012, as the opposition to coal projects began to ramp up.

“It was interesting in terms of what we were seeing in opposition to coal coming together,” Fryer said. “It was loud, it was effective — rallying against proposed terminals in Oregon and Washington, and the movement kind of migrated across the border in 2012.”

He said the flashpoint was two things — Neptune Terminals on the North Shore in Vancouver applying for a upgrade permit to handle more coal, and Fraser Surrey Docks applied for a permit to become a coal transfer terminal and handle up to four million tonnes a year.

“This became the focus of the opposition movement in B.C.” he said. “And what we found, to put it bluntly, is the industry was getting clobbered in the media.

Coverage was all one sided and frankly a lot of that was the industry’s fault, because no single member wanted to take

Coal is loaded into a truck at a B.C. mine ownership of the issue.”

So they formed the Coal Alliance as a means to speak on behalf of industry.

“What was happening with only one side of the story being told, there was an awful lot of information going around,” he said.

The Coal Alliance members include Teck, Westshore Terminals, Neptune Terminals, Fraser Surrey Docks, Canadian Pacific, Canadian National, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Mining Association of BC and Coal Association of Canada.

The alliance works closely with organized labour and others who support coal mining and shipping in B.C. Fryer said he has a lot of respect for people in the environmental movement.

“I think industry is better because of them,” he said. “But there are also a lot of people in the anti-coal movement who I would not refer to as environmentalists, I would refer to them as anti-development groups, because their bottom line is that all fossil fuels, including metallurgic coal from B.C.

should be left in the ground.”

Fryer said he’s seen a shift in the opposition.

He said in Metro Vancouver, the movement is now focusing on blocking things like air quality permits and water discharge permits.

“So they’re really focusing their attention there,” he said. “And they’ve been focusing their attention on getting various motions and resolutions from different municipalities passed against the coal industry or against specific projects.”

The Coal Alliance made a video entitled Working with Coal to show the human side of the industry.

“The opposition likes to paint us as this kind of faceless, dark, Darth Vader-type entity,” he said. “What we wanted to do is get a voice and show the stories of the men and women who work in the industry either directly or indirectly.”

Fryer said the pushback by the Coal Alliance has helped to make the coverage of the coal industry more balanced then it was a few years ago.

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“It really is pushing back with the facts and a lot of them are economic,” he said.

Nic Milligan, from Teck Resources, noted that the coal industry is a key economic driver and the transport of coal from the mine sites to terminals directly and indirectly employs 26,000 people.

“There are over 4,000 employees in the Elk Valley,” Milligan said. “The average wage of employees in the Elk Valley is $95,000 a year.”

The industry also accounts for $3.2 billion in economic activity and $715 million in tax revenues to all levels of government.

Milligan said Teck infuses over $1 billion into the B.C. economy per year and over $470 million into Metro Vancouver per year.

Troy Cook said that from the union’s perspective, concerns about jobs in the coal industry are at the top of the list.

“We’re getting behind the mule on this thing and helping out, because it’s super important to our membership,” Cook said, adding that’s why they are asking councils to support the alliance.

Trevor Crawley photo

The Thurow family came out from Sparwood to take in the annual Bigfoot Archery Shoot this past weekend at the Cranbrook Archery Club range.

The shoot, which drew archery enthusiasts from around the region, consisted of three courses of 3D foam targets, along with a novelty night shoot on Saturday evening. Pictured above, Greyson Thurow takes aim at a standing Grizzly bear on one of the courses on Saturday afternoon.

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Wolf cull ends for this year with 84 killed Continued from page 1 The South Peace herds have also seen significant losses from wolves, with 37 per cent of adult mortalities confirmed as wolf kills. Four herds in the region, the Quintette, Moberly, Scott and Kennedy-Siding, were targeted in the wolf removal program.

The 700-member Graham herd, the largest in the South Peace, is being left without protection as a control group.

The program to shoot wolves from the air was a last resort after targeted hunting and trapping of wolves proved inadequate, sometimes splitting up wolf packs and increasing predation of caribou.

The South Selkirk herd has been subject to intensive protection efforts on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border. In 2007 the province banned logging and

roadbuilding in its 2.2 million-hectare B.C. range and restricted offroad recreatioin to reduce human disturbance.

In the Peace region, restrictions were approved in 2012 to protect 498,000 hectares of high elevation winter range.

The modern program began in 2003, after decades of managed hunting and other wolf control measures.

For the first part of the 20th century, B.C. offered a bounty on wolves that ended in 1955. Beginning in 1950, baits laced with poison were used in bait stations and later dropped onto frozen lakes and rivers, which killed other species as well as wolves.

Large-scale poisoning in wilderness areas was suspended in 1960, but targeted baiting to protect livestock continued until 1999.

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On Sunday, April 19, the Wildfire Management Branch conducted an ecosystem restoration burn near Cherry Creek in the East Kootenay.

Wildfire Management Branch fire crews are monitoring the area again today and extinguishing any hot spots within the fire’s perimeter.

Wildfire Management Branch staff determined that the weather forecast, the venting index and wind direction were all favourable prior to igniting the fire.

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side-effect of burning and as the temperature drops later in the day, smoke tends to settle in valleys. As evidenced from the amount of smoke that was produced on Sunday, there was a significant build-up of forest fuels within the project’s boundaries. The majority of the smoke seen in Kimberley and surrounding areas dissipated within a few hours.

This burn project will help increase biodiversity in the area, improve badger and Lewis’s woodpecker habitat and expand winter grazing grounds for a variety of ungulates. This

project is tied to the Artesian Pasture prescribed burn that took place in the fall of 2014.

Together, they will help protect Kimberley and surrounding communities from the possibility of catastrophic wildfires in the summer months.

Historically, the Rocky Mountain Trench has had an open valley bottom with very few trees present. Low-intensity fires tended to burn every five to seven years in the valley bottom, while fires burned at about 20-year intervals at higher elevations.

In the absence of fire in re-

cent decades, these areas had become overgrown. A build-up of forest fuels (combustible materials such as underbrush, pine needles and wood debris) can increase the risk of more intense and damaging forest fires.

To report a wildfire or unattended campfire, call 1 800 663-5555 toll-free or *5555 on a cellphone.

For the latest information on current wildfire activity, burning restrictions, road closures and air quality advisories, visit www.bcwildfire.ca

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Don King was the winner of the Burn Fund Calendar contest for February 2015. Don won a burn fund t-shirt, two burn fund to go coffee mugs , and two free coffees from Hot Shots. From left to right: Fergus Spowart, Laura Kennedy (Chamber of Commerce), Don King, Brandon Cavener, and David Hull (Chamber of Commerce).

A Canadian bestselling author will be making a stop at Coles Books in the Tamarack Centre in May. Corrine Jeffery, an author based out of St. Albert, Alberta, will be in Cranbrook on May 9 to celebrate the bestseller status of her ‘Understanding Ursula’ trilogy of historical novels.

Based on Jeffery’s own family’s experience, the Understanding Ursula trilogy tells the tale of the Werners, a contentious German-Lutheran family who immigrate to Canada in the early 1900s.

It follows their lives, hardships, and triumphs until 1989,

weaving through generations of family drama, secrets, and controversy. The Werners are a dynamic cast of characters fighting for the right to choose independent lives for themselves while attempting to hold on to family values and relationships.

Arriving: 1909–1919, the first book in the series, was published in 2011. It quickly made its way to fifth on the Audrey’s Books list of Edmonton fiction bestsellers and at the top of Amazon.ca in Canadian drama.

Her second novel, Thriving: 1920–1939, published in 2012, made eighth on the Calgary

Corinne Jeffery Herald’s bestsellers list and seventh on the Audrey’s Books

list. The last book in the trilogy, Choosing: 1940–1989, published in 2013, placed fourth on the Audrey’s Books list.

Jeffery was born in Saskatchewan in 1945 and raised in Manitoba. She is a graduate of the Brandon General Hospital School of Nursing and has a bachelor of nursing degree from the University of Manitoba. After many years in Winnipeg, Jeffery moved to St. Albert, Alberta, with her husband and family and worked as an educator at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton. She decided to start writing after listening to so many intriguing and captivating stories about her family.

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The arts is good business.

That’s the impression I was left with following a recent Cranbrook Chamber of Commerce meeting where the keynote speaker was James Moore, federal Minister of Industry and Conservative MP for Port Moody-Westwood-Port Coquitlam.

In response to a question from Cranbrook Councillor Danielle Cardozo, Moore pointed out that the arts and culture sector represents 640,000 jobs nationally, and that the arts and culture industry in Canada is three times the size of the insurance industry and two times the size of the forest industry.

Interesting numbers!

Which leads me to the pressing need for a decent home for a public art gallery in Cranbrook, the subject of much discussion in recent letters to the editor.

Personally, I would love to see the former Fire Hall, a heritage building, repurposed as a public art gallery. It would be a boon to downtown revitalization and, as Minister Moore’s numbers show, the arts can translate into good business.

But arts and culture are also about more than numbers. There has been some chatter about wants versus needs in recent letters. For me, arts and culture fill a very real need.

Every city needs things like arenas and swimming pools and trails to address the needs of our bodies. Every city needs things like libraries and schools and colleges to address the needs of our minds.

And every city needs things like theatre companies and choirs and symphony orchestras to address the needs of our souls.

Cranbrook has many of these things in abundance. About all we need now is a permanent home for a public art gallery.

Fill the potholes, as funds permit, by all

means. But fill our souls too. Public art is part of that.

It’s not something I want. It’s something I need.

Sandra Albers Cranbrook

Fire Hall/CDAC

It is disappointing to read much of the misinformation that many people in Cranbrook choose to believe about Cranbrook and District Arts Council and Fire Hall #1.

Good decisions are based on weighing the pros and cons of true facts and not hearsay.

I thank Ms Dodgson for her letter of April 14th for it provides an opportunity to correct much of what is erroneously believed.

In addition to the corrections made by Mr McColl in a letter to the Townsman, Cranbrook and District Arts Council Society has been in existence for forty years, not ten and prior to that under the guidance of Ms. Muriel Baxter it was the Kootenay Fine Arts and Craft Society, giving it a history of 70 plus years in Cranbrook.

The new council has removed the funds once planned to assist in the restoration of this historic building but Cranbrook and District Arts Council has offered to take the restoration on, at no cost to the City. We have, in fact, been exploring every avenue available for funding and have so far been successful without any help from the City.

Grants are paid to many organizations including the City of Cranbrook. The Spray Irrigation upgrades would not have been possible without two thirds grant funding from the Federal and Provincial Governments and to date that would mean the City has received approximately 20 million dollars in grants for that project. That is a

pretty big hand out. The funding we receive from grants set aside for Arts and Culture are miniscule by comparison and if we don’t get them in Cranbrook, they go to Fernie, Kimberley and elsewhere. You can see the positive result of that in those communities.

Most BC Communities value and promote the arts by owning buildings, frequently historic or heritage, to showcase the visual arts. The Municipalities of Kimberley, Fernie, Invermere, Nelson, Revelstoke and Salmon Arm all, for example, own buildings specifically for the Visual Arts. Nelson alone, a community much smaller than Cranbrook owns the buildings which house the Capitol Theatre, the Civic Theatre, Kootenay School of the Arts and Touchstones Museum. These communities take pride in their artists, their work and skills. In return these communities gain balance becoming attractive to all.

Using the argument that we should buy the building as some have suggested, maybe minor hockey should buy the Memorial Arena and library users should buy the library.

You may have voted for this Mayor and Council, Ms. Dodgson but do you sincerely believe they are all comfortable revoking an agreement, that was years in the making, included two previous Councils and one on which many volunteers have put hours of volunteer time into? CDAC for its part has acted in good faith in order to preserve a heritage building that would remain in city hands and become a much needed amenity accessible for all taxpayers? They will not give up now.

Jenny Humphrey CDAC Volunteer

Land sales leave lingering odour

T

he B.C. Liberal government’s sale of Crown properties to help balance its election budget was the dominant story in the legislature last week, as the NDP revealed evidence of a “fire sale” that may have left millions on the table.

They started with Burke Mountain, the biggest single deal involving 14 view properties in Coquitlam. The buyer was a prominent developer whose array of companies happened to donate nearly $1 million to the B.C. Liberal Party since 2000.

The $85 million price tag was similar to the B.C. Assessment Authority value on these forested properties, but an outside appraisal concluded they could have fetched an additional $43 million if they had spent more time on the hot Lower Mainland real estate market.

(This sale made headlines last fall for the province’s $8 million buyout of the local First Nation’s undefined territorial claim, when it was revealed the chief of the tiny Kwikwitlem First Nation pocketed an $800,000 commission.)

The government’s defence of the sale went from wobbly to weak. Citizens’ Services Minister Amrik Virk was caught flat-footed and tried to get by on platitudes rather than retreat and find some answers.

Premier Christy Clark weighed in, ar-

guing that the budget would have balanced without the property sale, and that some sales closed too late to help the election-year budget. Finance Minister Mike de Jong stressed that all these asset sales were detailed in three successive budgets. They downplayed the notion of land sales being rushed.

Then the NDP produced a string of emails sent between senior officials responsible for selling two big properties across the street from the legislature.

BC Views “To be part of the sale and Tom development of over eight Fletcher acres of Victoria’s beautiful inner harbour area is a oncein-a-lifetime opportunity. An opportunity that normally would warrant years of planning and preparation,” wrote one citizens’ services bureaucrat. “Unfortunately we don’t have unlimited time – our goal is to have For Sale signs up by Oct. 31 with sales proceeds in the bank by March 31, 2013.”

Then came a disclosure about a property in Surrey that had been bought as a potential hospital site. Once the existing hospital was expanded, that property was declared surplus. Indeed, de Jong featured this property to promote the government’s plan to stimulate local economies with private sector investment on unused land.

The Surrey deal closed for $20.5 million on March 21, 2014, just days before the

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end of the fiscal year. NDP leader John Horgan pointed to an outside appraisal of $23.5 million, and an assessment for tax purposes of $27.2 million.

The appraiser also recommended that the “highest and best use” for the Surrey land was to hold it until had been rezoned for commercial, retail or office development.

De Jong cited another big health property in Vancouver that sold for more than its appraised and assessed value. It’s only the actual market that determines worth, he insisted.

But it’s now clear that these and perhaps other sales were done with arbitrary deadlines that had everything to do with the B.C. Liberals’ need to balance the books. When elections are a battle of sound bites, perception matters more than reality.

It’s also worth recalling that the budget deficits prior to the 2013 election were largely a result of the B.C. government’s costly undoing of the harmonized sales tax, rather than the harsh forces of international finance.

Surplus asset sales have a long tradition in B.C., where the government owns more than 90 per cent of all land. But after this round, full disclosure will be demanded.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

KIMBERLEY AND CRANBROOK COMMUNITY CALENDAR

UPCOMING

April 23 - Legacy Builders Lunch (for those 50 and over), 11:00 a.m.

Spring into Spring with a Salad Buffet lunch. FREE. Just let us know you are coming. Call Abundant Life Church, 250-426-2866. 501 - 11 Ave. S., Cranbrook.

Art Movie Night at Centre 64 “Waste Land”, a 2010 award-winning documentary about Brazilian artist Vik Muniz and his awe-inspiring creations amid the world’s largest landfill in Rio de Janiero, will be shown at Kimberley’s Centre 64 Studio on Friday, April 24. Movie starts at 7:30pm, entrance by donation, no host bar, free snacks.

Home Grown Music Society presents the last Coffee House of the season at Centre 64 on Saturday, April 25 at 8:00 pm. Tickets at the Snowdrift Cafe and Centre 64.

Have Camera Will Travel, Join The Kimberley Biker Babes presenting “Biking Berlin to Copenhagen” At Centre 64 on Tuesday, April 28 at 7:30 pm. Admission by donation to Kimberley Arts Centre.

MBSS Grad parent meeting April 28th, 7pm in the school gym.

Adult or Senior? Want to improve your computer skills? Sign up now for 1 hour sessions on Internet and Email (May 1st) and iPad, Photos (April 28th & May 8th). FREE! Sessions held at Cranbrook Public Library. Pre-registration required. Call Katherine 250-4172896, space is limited.

Free tetanus and diphtheria immunizations for adults offered by Public Health Nursing – Wednesday April 29: McDonalds 9-11am; Thursday April 30: Canadian Tire 12-2:30 pm. Other times available at the Cranbrook Health Unit, call 250-420-2207 to boost your immunity now!

Join the Kimberley Community Choir for “Earth Wind & Water”, Sat. May 2 @ 7pm. Admission by donation. Kimberley United Church, 10 Boundary St., Kimberley.

Scotiabank MS WALK. Every step tells a story. Cranbrook, Sun. May 3, 2015. Register now to end MS; 1-800-268-7582 or mswalks.ca.

CARP - The Canadian Association of Retired Persons is launching a new chapter for the Kootenays on Monday May 4th,1-3 pm at the College of the Rockies, Cranbrook Campus. Room TBA. The Kootenay Chapter will provide a voice for aging individuals, their caregivers and other interested supporters. Info: Karen at 250-4265021 or Brenda 250-489-4033.

May 9, GoGo Grannies Annual GLITZ AND GLAMOR fund raiser.

Sale of gently used women’s accessories including an amazing amount of jewelry, purses and scarfs to finish off that glamorous look. Silent auction tables. Enjoy a mimosa and light lunch in a lovely atmosphere. Tickets: Lotus books or from your favourite Granny. Info: Cynthia at 250-919-8253.

ONGOING

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 Community Tennis Association welcomes all citizens to play or learn to play. Call Neil 250-489-8107, Cathy 250-464-1903.

Canadian Cancer Society- if you have spare time and would like to volunteer, interested applicants can call 250-426-8916, drop by our office at #19-9th Avenue S, Cranbrook or go to www.fightwithus.ca and register as a volunteer.

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.

Aged10-14? Got the writing bug? CBAL hosts the Youth Writing Group at the Cranbrook Public Library. The 2nd & 4th Wed of each month, 4-5:30pm Free! Call Lori 250-464-1864 or khough@cbal.org TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) non profit weight loss support group meets EVERY Thursday at 5:00 pm, at Sr Citizen’s Centre, (downstairs) 125 17th Ave S, Cranbrook. Drop in, have fun while losing weight gradually. This Chapter has won an annual B.C. Provincial Award for “Best Avg Weight Loss Per Member”. Info: Marie 250 417 2642 Cranbrook Writer’s Group meet on the 4th Monday of the month at the Arts Council. Engage in writing exercises, constructive critiques & share in information on upcoming literary events & contests. Cbk and District Arts Council, 104, 135-10th Ave S, CBK. info: 250-4264223 www.cranbrookanddistrictartscouncil.com Parkinson’s Support Group are meeting at 2 pm on the third Wednesday of each month at the Heritage Inn. For more info. phone Linda @ 250-489-4252. No meetings July, Aug or Dec. Do you have the desire to stop eating compulsively? Overeaters Anonymous (a 12-Step Program) meets Mondays from 7-8pm at Cranbrook United Church, 2-12th St. S., downstairs. Contact: cranbrookoa@hotmail.com North Star Quilters Society Meetings are held the 2nd & 4th Monday at 7:00 PM, basement of Centennial Centre, 100 4th Ave Kimberley.

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The drownings will continue

T

he first thing to do, if you want to cut the number of refugees from Africa and the Middle East dying while trying to cross the Mediterranean, is to drop leaflets all along the Libyan coast teaching them about ship stability. Don’t all rush to one side when you spot a ship that might save you, the pamphlets will say, because your boat will capsize and you will drown.

That’s what happened last weekend off the Libyan coast, where a boat filled with at least 700 refugees overturned when the people aboard spotted a Portuguese freighter and tried to attract its attention. (One survivor says there were 950 people aboard, including those locked below decks. ) At least 650 people died — half a Titanic’s worth of casualties — although the boat in question was only 20 metres (70 ft.) long.

Only 28 people were saved.

Exactly the same thing happened with another boat crammed with refugees the previous week, and another 400 people drowned. Counting another 300+ people who drowned in another disaster in February, the death toll right now, before the peak summer season for refugee crossings, is around 1,500. That’s a full Titanic.

It’s not getting quite as many headlines, though.

So the second thing to do is to lock the European Union’s foreign ministers into a room and refuse to let them have caviar and champagne until they agree to do something about the silent massacre in the Mediterranean. Something quite effective was being done until late last year, but they deliberately stopped it.

Until late last year the Italian navy (praise be upon it) was running an operation called Mare Nostrum that went all the way to the edge of Libya’s territorial waters

to pluck refugees from the sea. The operation cost 9.5 million euros a month ($10.3 million), but it rescued 100,000 people from leaking boats or the open sea. More than half of the 170,000 refugees who landed in Italy had cause to thank the Italian navy, and only one in a hundred died.

The number of refugees arriving in Italy each month is around the same this year, maybe a little higher — but ten times as many people are dying on the way. That is because Gwynne the European Union’s governments, rather than sharDyer ing the cost of the Mare Nostrum project, asked Italy to shut it down and substituted their own “Triton” operation.

Except that “Triton” is in no way an adequate substitute. It only gets a third of funding Mare Nostrum had, and it is only supposed to operate in Italy’s coastal waters, not farther out where most of the refugee boats capsize or founder. Even this year, with the Italian navy theoretically excused from duty, it has saved twice as many people as the pathetic “Triton” operation. Which, by the way, was INTENDED to be pathetic.

The argument the European governments made was that if you didn’t give the refugees the hope that they would be saved by the Italian navy, fewer of them would come. Right, so if you’re fleeing the civil war in Syria or the ghastly dictatorship in Eritrea, and you learn that the danger of dying on a Mediterranean crossing has gone up from one percent to ten percent, you’re going to decide to stay in war-torn Libya instead?

Were the European governments lying to themselves, or just to everybody else?

The latter, almost certainly. They were under pressure at home to stop the flow of migrants, they didn’t want to share the

burden of saving them with the admirable Italians, but they couldn’t just say “Let them drown.” So they came up with that preposterous argument about deterring the migrants by making the crossing more dangerous, and shut Mare Nostrum down.

“In many countries in Europe at the moment,” said Laurens Jolles, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) representative in Italy, “the (political) dialogue and the rhetoric is quite extreme and very irresponsible....It’s a fear of foreigners..., but it is being exploited for populist or political reasons, especially in election periods.”

Too true. Take, for example, Katie Hopkins, columnist for The Sun, a down-market right-wing British red-top (tabloid newspaper) owned by the estimable Rupert Murdoch. Last Friday, in an article headlined “Rescue boats? I’d use gunships to stop migrants”, she wrote: “NO, I don’t care. Show me pictures of coffins, show me bodies floating in water, play violins and show me skinny people looking sad. I still don’t care.”

“Make no mistake, these migrants are like cockroaches. They might look a bit “Bob Geldof’s Ethiopia circa 1984”, but they are built to survive a nuclear bomb.

They are survivors....It’s time to get Australian. Bring on the gunships, force migrants back to their shores and burn the boats.”

Saying that sort of thing is how she earns her living, but it also expresses the true sentiments of a politically significant minority not only in Britain but in most countries throughout the European Union. When the UNHCR appealed to the EU to resettle 130,000 Syrian refugees, Germany said it would take 30,000, Sweden (with a tenth of Germany’s population) took 2,700 –and the other 26 EU states only took 5,438 between them.

So the drownings will continue.

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White Tigers pounce Cranbrook taekwondo club wraps season

Taylor Rocc a Sports Editor

Cranbrook’s White Tiger Taekwondo wrapped up its 2014-15 competition season with a trip to Kelowna for the Kees Taekwondo Invitational the weekend of April 10 to 12.

The White Tiger had a successful run at the event, claiming eight gold medals and 11 silver medals.

“The competition was good for all students and all levels,” wrote Master Steve Desjardins via email. “The black belts had some really good competitors there to compete. Overall, everyone had fun and enjoyed the competition.

“This was a real good tournament for some of our students, who for them, it was their first time competing.”

A total of 120 competitors took part in the tournament, seeking out medals in six different events: poomsae,

power break, high-jump kick, flying side kick and weapons.

According to the World Taekwondo Federations, poomsae is a series of movements for offense and defense techniques in accordance with fixed patterns.

White Tiger students Erica Palmer and Sarah Jewsbury each earned gold medals in their respective divisions of poomsae competition.

Rhy Palmer and Ethan Sawatsky laid claim to silver medals in poomsae as well.

A total of three White Tiger athletes earned gold medals in full-contact sparring. Erica Palmer, Tanner Swanson and Ken Jewsbury were all rewarded for their efforts in each of their respective divisions.

Rhy Palmer, Nolan Palmer, Hunter Chiz, Sarah Jewsbury and Ainsley Zmurchyk contributed to the medal hunt, with each earning

silver medals in their respective sparring divisions.

In power break competition, athletes are scored by how many boards they break using standard techniques.

Nolan Palmer was awarded with gold and Rhy Palmer with silver in power-break competition.

In high-jump kick competition, Kihwan Kim claimed gold with a 7-foot-6 leap. Sarah Jewsbury was awarded silver for her efforts, while Sawatsky narrowly missed out on a medal, finishing fourth.

Kihwan Kim also claimed gold in flying side kick competition.

Dawson Thomas finished fourth in traditional Korean weapons form competition.

The successful weekend in Kelowna concludes the season for White Tiger Taekwondo.

The next campaign of martial arts gets underway in the fall.

Former Ice Stoll arrested on drug charges Associated Press

LAS VEGAS - Los Angeles Kings centre Jarret Stoll is accused of having cocaine and Ecstasy with him when he was arrested on a felony drug charge at a Las Vegas Strip resort swimming pool, police said.

The 32-year-old Stoll was arrested Friday afternoon after security guards conducting a routine search to enter the MGM Grand hotel’s Wet Republic pool complex found what investigators believe to be 3.3 grams of cocaine and several capsules in the back pocket of his shorts, according to a police arrest report made public Monday.

Police are testing the powder and the capsules of what investigators suspect is MDMA, also known as Ecstasy.

Combined, police put

the value of the drugs at about $600.

Stoll’s lawyer, David Chesnoff, was unavailable Monday for immediate comment. Chesnoff said Saturday he hoped the public wouldn’t prejudge his client.

Jarret Stoll Stoll was released on $5,000 bond late Friday from the Clark County jail in Las Vegas.

His July 1 court date in Las Vegas will be on the same day the 12-

year NHL veteran becomes an unrestricted free agent.

Kings spokesman Jeff Moeller declined to comment Monday.

Stoll is a two-time Stanley Cup winner and has been dating Fox Sports reporter Erin Andrews since late 2012.

The Kings missed the playoffs this season, and players went home for the summer a week ago.

Stoll spent his major junior hockey career in Cranbrook as a member of the Kootenay Ice. In 245 career WHL games with the Ice, Stoll racked up 124 goals and 286 points.

He ranked as the franchise leading scorer until surpassed by Sam Reinhart this past season.

Stoll was the captain of the 2001-02 Memorial Cup champion Ice team.

Campbell River Storm claim Keystone Cup Townsman Staff

The Campbell River Storm are 2015 Keystone Cup champions after defeating the North Edmonton Red Wings 6-3 in the Western Canadian Junior ‘B’

Championship game Sunday.

The Storm advanced to the tournament, representing B.C., after dispatching the Kimberley Dynamiters in the Cyclone Taylor Cup final April 6.

Paul Sawatsky Photo

White Tiger Taekwondo is: back row (L to R): Master Steven Desjardins, Dawson Thomas, Ken Jewsbury, Erica Palmer, Kihwan Kim, Tanner Swanson and Paula Desjardins; middle row (L to R): Hunter Chiz, KiJae Kim, Nolan Palmer; front row (L to R): Sarah Jewsbury, Ainsley Zmurchyk, Ava Chiz, Rhy Palmer, Ethan Sawatsky, Carson Waller; missing: Sara Ingram and Colby Stroud.

WHL Playoff Statistics & Series

EASTERN CONFERENCE Playoff Scoring Leaders Player Team 1. Adam Tambellini CGY 2. Travis Sanheim CGY 3. Connor Rankin CGY 4. Luke Philp KTN 5. Jake Virtanen CGY

GP 11 12 12 7 12

G 9 5 9 5 4

A 12 10 5 7 8

PTS 21 15 14 12 12

WESTERN CONFERENCE Playoff Scoring Leaders Player Team 1. Nicolas Petan POR 2. Oliver Bjorkstrand POR 3. Brandon Magee VIC 4. Leon Draisaitl KEL 5. Tyson Baillie KEL

GP 11 11 10 9 9

G 7 10 9 4 7

A 12 8 6 11 5

PTS 19 18 15 15 12

Playoff Goaltending Leaders (min. 60 minutes played) Player Team GAA W L SO MP 1. Jordan Papirny BWK 1.98 8 2 0 637 2. Marek Langhamer MHT 2.28 5 5 1 657 3. Mack Shields CGY 2.33 6 2 0 515 4. Rylan Toth RDR 2.34 1 4 0 308 5. Daniel Wapple REG 2.81 5 4 0 554

Playoff Goaltending Leaders (min. 60 minutes played) Player Team GAA W L SO MP 1. Michael Herringer KEL 0.74 2 0 0 81 2. Carter Hart EVE 2.28 5 6 0 710 3. Garret Hughson SPO 2.33 2 4 0 438 4. Jackson Whistle KEL 2.35 6 1 3 484 5. Adin Hill POR 2.91 8 3 1 702

EASTERN CONFERENCE FINAL BRANDON WHEAT KINGS vs. CALGARY HITMEN Game 1: Friday, April 24 at Brandon Game 2: Saturday, April 25 at Brandon Game 3: Tuesday, April 28 at Calgary Game 4: Wednesday, April 29 at Calgary *Game 5: TBA *Game 6: TBA *Game 7: TBA

WESTERN CONFERENCE FINAL KELOWNA ROCKETS vs. PORTLAND WINTERHAWKS Game 1: Friday, April 24 at Kelowna Game 2: Saturday, April 25 at Kelowna Game 3: Tuesday, April 28 at Portland Game 4: Wednesday, April 29 at Portland *Game 5: Friday, May 1 at Kelowna *Game 6: Sunday, May 3 at Portland *Game 7: Tuesday, May 5 at Kelowna

* = if necessary

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EASTERN CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS BRANDON WHEAT KINGS vs. REGINA PATS Wheat Kings win series 4-1 Game 1: Regina Pats 1 at Brandon Wheat Kings 5 Game 2: Regina Pats 2 at Brandon Wheat Kings 5 Game 3: Brandon Wheat Kings 2 at Regina Pats 3 Game 4: Brandon Wheat Kings 3 at Regina Pats 2 (OT) Game 5: Regina Pats 2 at Brandon Wheat Kings 3 (OT)

WESTERN CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS KELOWNA ROCKETS vs. VICTORIA ROYALS Rockets win series 4-1 Game 1: Victoria Royals 0 at Kelowna Rockets 5 Game 2: Victoria Royals 3 at Kelowna Rockets 4 (OT) Game 3: Kelowna Rockets 4 at Victoria Royals 2 Game 4: Kelowna Rockets 4 at Victoria Royals 5 (OT) *Game 5: Victoria Royals 3 at Kelowna Rockets 7

CALGARY HITMEN vs. MEDICINE HAT TIGERS Hitmen win series 4-1 Game 1: Calgary Hitmen 3 at Medicine Hat Tigers 1 Game 2: Medicine Hat Tigers 3 at Calgary Hitmen 2 (OT) Game 3: Medicine Hat Tigers 4 at Calgary Hitmen 5 Game 4: Calgary Hitmen 2 at Medicine Hat Tigers 1 (OT) Game 5: Medicine Hat Tigers 3 at Calgary Hitmen 4 (OT2)

EVERETT SILVERTIPS vs. PORTLAND WINTERHAWKS Winterhawks win series 4-1 Game 1: Portland Winterhawks 3 at Everett Silvertips 5 Game 2: Portland Winterhawks 4 at Everett Silvertips 3 (OT2) Game 3: Everett Silvertips 3 at Portland Winterhawks 5 Game 4: Everett Silvertips 1 at Portland Winterhawks 2 (OT) Game 5: Portland Winterhawks 3 at Everett Silvertips 2

EASTERN CONFERENCE QuARTER-FINALS BRANDON WHEAT KINGS vs. EDMONTON OIL KINGS Brandon Wheat Kings win series 4-1

WESTERN CONFERENCE QuARTER-FINALS KELOWNA ROCKETS vs. TRI-CITY AMERICANS Kelowna Rockets win series 4-0

REGINA PATS vs. SWIFT CURRENT BRONCOS Regina Pats win series 4-0

VICTORIA ROYALS vs. PRINCE GEORGE COUGARS Victoria Royals win series 4-1

CALGARY HITMEN vs. KOOTENAY ICE Calgary Hitmen win series 4-3

EVERETT SILVERTIPS vs. SPOKANE CHIEFS Everett Silvertips win series 4-2

MEDICINE HAT TIGERS vs. RED DEER REBELS Medicine Hat Tigers win series 4-1

PORTLAND WINTERHAWKS vs. SEATTLE THUNDERBIRDS Portland Winterhawks win series 4-2

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Distract yourself with a fun conversation. Tonight: Spend time with someone you admire.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You could get a little hot under the collar when you hear someone’s news. In a sense, you might feel jeopardized. Detach, and take a hard look at the big picture. You probably will want to rethink your response. Find out the reason behind an odd reaction. Tonight: Make it your treat.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You could be more out of sorts than you realize. You have a way of expressing your caring that delights many people. You’ll express a lot of positive vibes, but if you hold in anger and frustration, you could encounter a problem. Tonight: Ask for what

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Pressure builds if you are dealing with a friend who could do a last-minute reversal. Do not mix business and pleasure. It also would be wise not to make a money agreement with this person. Keep some of your opinions to yourself. Tonight: Play it low-key.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You beam even when you are not happy. A lot of responsibilities could be dropped on you.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Others seem to be pushy. You have your own ideas for which direction might coincide with people’s expectations. Do some needed research, make a call and have a discussion with someone to make sure that you both are on the same page. Tonight: Till the wee hours.

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Make a point of understanding how a loved one feels, and try to identify with him or her. Tonight: Where your friends are.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Others could keep you going with requests, as they seem to need your advice. Deal directly with one person who is very important to you. In your mind, you cannot be undermined. Put out your terms, and be ready for a strong response. Tonight: Ever playful.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Expressing exhaustion at being pushed so much is normal. Ask yourself why someone would push you so hard. Conversations need to have the fine touch of a diplomat if you are to root out the issue. Tonight: Say “yes” to an offer, even if you are a bit ambivalent.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You have imagination and the willingness to break past mental barriers. You can be counted on for coming up with unusual answers that work. Be willing to blaze your own trail. Know that a flirtation could sidetrack you. Know what you are doing.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You might feel the need to deal with a source of stress immediately. With a clear mind, you will approach other matters with greater efficiency and clarity.

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It’s human nature to complain when things go wrong, but it’s rare to post something to let people know when things go right. My business has only a few online reviews, and they are negative posts from customers who were not happy with some small thing. I always try to make amends, but even so, the review is never removed. For every bad thing that happens in my business, there are so many good things and so many happy customers. They thank me over and over, yet they don’t write reviews, even when I ask.

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It will make more difference than you realize. -- Business Woman Dear Business: It’s human nature to write only when you have a complaint or a disagreement. (We should know.)

When people are satisfied with the service they are getting, they rarely think to say so, but you are right that small businesses depend on good word of mouth. Please, folks, if you have had a pleasant experience with a business or service, say so in an online review. It means a great deal to them.

Dear Annie: When I was growing up, the rule was that if you had to cancel an appointment, you would call to let the person know that your plans had changed. Now that everyone has cellphones, it seems that the rules have changed.

A couple of friends stood me up on my birthday because my cellphone was turned off. They said they didn’t come over because I hadn’t called to verify that I was actually going to be there at the appointed time. But we had already made these plans a week before. I thought I only needed to call if I was NOT going to be there. Am I out of touch with how things are done now?

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People expect to be able to reach you at any moment of the day or night in case something changes at the last minute.

But it also means people need constant verification to be sure the plans are still on. We think they would be happy to reschedule, and we hope you will let them.

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The following goods will be sold at public auction in Lethbridge, AB.

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Rare opportunity to purchase private 150 acres 5 minutes from Cranbrook BC. Borders crown land on 3 sides.

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