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Hazy skies blamed on Lytton fire Smoke drifting in from fire in B.C. Interior, says Southeast Fire Centre TRE VOR CR AWLEY
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, however, the smoke that was visible in the Cranbrook and Kimberley area on Friday isn’t from anything local. Though the Steeples were covered in a light haze, the smoke isn’t coming from anything local as it is blowing in from Lytton, which is just outside the Lower Mainland. The Lytton fire—which was discovered on Thursday—is currently 1,500 hectares and is roughly 15 per cent contained after crews battled the blaze over the weekend.
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BARRY COULTER PHOTO
Christie Wheeldon, Chair of the Sam Steele Days Society, and Melodie Hull, celebrate the official release of the Fisher Peak Brewing Company’s new Sam Steele Honey Lager at the Heid-Out in Cranbrook Thursday, June 11. The delicious honey lager is specially brewed for the upcoming Sam Steele Days festival, June 19-21. It’s light amber, slightly hoppy, with a hazelnut aftertaste, and its alcohol content is around 5.8 per cent. 1,000 litres have been brewed — enough for everyone, so head on down. Ms. Melodie Hull is getting set for her Sam Steele Days Chautauqua at Miss Melodie’s School for Fine Young Ladies, June 20, 1 - 4 pm. See more later this week in the Townsman.
Reflecting on sand dune collapse Everett Olafson of Wasa thanks strangers and those closest to him after being buried alive three years ago E VERE T T OL AFSON For the Townsman
September 1, 2012, looked like any normal day: a clear sky, warm water, kids playing in the sand. I didn’t expect anything to happen. But it did. While digging in a sand dune at Koocanusa Lake, something above me collapsed. I was buried under a bank of sand. I remember screaming for help, then thinking, “What the heck are you doing, Everett? Sand is sound
proof.” But I screamed again anyway. The next thing I remember, I’m running through a forest, away from the shadow of a red-eyed, black frog. I fall into a tree, into a blob of beige Jell-O. I push and slap my way through, and fall into space, where I float into nothing. I swim through a golden gate and into a page of Eye Spy, where suddenly everything is clouds. I fly through the door and walk on the ground.
Two guys are eating their lunch on a skyscraper beam. I ask them, “what are you building?” “We’re building a building,” they say. “What kind?” “You’ll have to wait and see,” they respond. “You’ll have to wait and see.” I didn’t wake up until September 8, a week later. At one moment, I was dreaming on morphine, and in the next blink, I was in a hospital
room, my Dad by my side, my body wired to machines, tubes stuffed up my nose, needles in my veins, and everything a little hazy. I had been in a medically-induced coma, so the sand that flooded into my lungs could be suctioned out. It would be another week before I was released from the Edmonton Children’s Hospital. My doctor said I was one in a million. No one had ever recovered so quickly from being buried alive.
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MP Wilks on proposed drug act changes
Conservatives say measures are need to protect public health and safety ARNE PETRYSHEN
The Conservative Government announced proposed changes to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. On Thursday, David Wilks, MP Kootenay Columbia joined the Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Health, and Roxanne James, Parliamentary Secretary to Canada’s Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, to announce the proposed changes to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA), with a focus on updating Health Canada’s nearly two-decade-old rules for drug control. Wilks noted the CDSA has two core objectives — protecting public health and maintaining public safety.
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