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How Does Your Garden Grow?

ARNE PETRYSHEN

Cranbrook city council chambers were filled with supporters and citizens with concerns regarding public hearings on the housing develop-

Cranbrook Council hears concerns and support for proposed Sonja’s Garden expansion

ment plans by Sonja’s Garden. Sonja’s Garden, an affordable family housing complex on Kootenay Street, is plan-

ning expansions.

There were two chances to speak for or against the proposed bylaws: the first which

changes the land use designation from Medium Density Residential to Park/Institutional/ Recreation; and the sec-

ond which adds a new zone Comprehensive Zone 6: CD-6 Sonja’s Garden Housing Development.

Later in the meeting, council gave third reading and adopted both bylaws.

City staff noted in the

report that there had been nine items of correspondence opposed to the proposal.

Coun. Ron Popoff said he supported the recommendations on the OCP amendment.

He said for him it all came down to one thing.

See SONJA’S, Page 3

AMBER ALERT CASE

RCMP confirm human remains found L AUREN KRUGEL Canadian Press

FOR THE TOWNSMAN

Students in Stewart Wilson’s Grade 3 class at Gordon Terrace had fun taking part in a variety of activities at Elizabeth Lake while developing their sensory awareness of the sights and sounds around them.

Beware, and be bear aware TRE VOR CR AWLEY

A man was mauled by a grizzly bear near Sparwood over the weekend, making it the third such encounter over the last two weeks

by East Kootenay residents.

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Conservation officers shut down the area to investigate the kill site of the animal the grizzlies were guarding. No action is being taken against the bears.

It’s not just hunters who are encountering

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bears out in the backcountry; grizzlies and black bears have been spotted in and around communities such as Cranbrook, Kimberley and Fernie.

See BEWARE, Page 3

• EAST KOOTENAY REGIONAL HOSPITAL

Cindy McKay & Joshua Groleau of Cranbrook, a girl Dorie & Dylan Jones of Cranbrook, a girl Brittany Carroll & Mitchel Wheeler of Jaffray, a girl Amanda & Brett Larsen of Wardner, a girl Vanya & Michael Leishman of Cranbrook, a girl Amanda & Brian Donald of Cranbrook, a boy

MIKE TURNER PHOTO

BLAIRMORE, Alta. A candlelight vigil meant to lend hope and support in the search for a missing two-year-old girl dissolved in grief Tuesday night as RCMP informed the crowd that investigators had discovered human remains.

As an official with victims services announced the Amber Alert for little Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette had been cancelled, one young woman crashed into a friend’s arms and sobbed. Others sniffed quietly and wiped away tears. Some just stood in stunned silence.

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Cranbrook’s little brick building

Saved from the wrecker’s ball to serve again Gerry Warner

It’s

the little building that tried harder and almost didn’t make it.

But thanks to a dedicated group of volunteers and a big hand from the community, the former Cranbrook Water and Electrical Building, simply known as “the Little Brick Building,” now stands solidly behind Cranbrook City Hall in full reflection of its former glory.

Built in 1936 out of recycled bricks from a former Heritage Hill mansion, the small brick structure was used for many years as the service hub for water and electrical services in the city and was directly connected to City Hall.

But when Cranbrook sold its profitable electrical utility to BC Hydro in 1970 and made changes to the operation of its water system active use of the building ceased and the building languished except for occasional use by the Cranbrook Fire Department.

With little upkeep provided by the City, Mother Nature did the rest. The old, wooden roof began to leak, water got inside the unheated structure and when it froze between the bricks in winter the walls began to crumble. Many winters of unshoveled snow caused the roof to sag even though the City tried to reinforce it. By 2010, the building was empty, locked up and essentially condemned.

In 2013, a City staff recommendation came before council to demolish the building. Council complied, voting unanimously to tear down the building with one councillor absent, who opposed demolition. However, another councillor seemed to capture Council’s mood at the time calling the historic structure “a sick building.” City staff commissioned an engineering report that said it would cost more than $134,000 just to keep the building standing without further restoration work. The

City Building Inspector called for the building to be “officially condemned” and removed within 30 days.

The future of the old Brick Building looked bleak. And so it seemed another Cranbrook heritage structure would be reduced to rubble as has happened so many times in the past.

Then a funny thing happened.

A letter to the Daily Townsman took issue with council’s precipitous action. In the letter, local businessman Ken Haberman, a car restoration specialist, said the Brick Building shared architectural features of other buildings torn down in the past such as the original Bank of Commerce building and the ornate, old Post Office building.

“We should be concerned about not repeating the same mistakes,” he wrote. “Choosing to destroy them is just wrong.”

Haberman’s letter seemed to prick the conscience of the town.

Soon other letters poured into the Townsman pleading for the building to be saved. It also stirred the moribund Cranbrook Baker Hill Neighbourhood Association into action which reorganized itself as the Cranbrook Heritage Association and made saving the Brick Building its top heritage priority and launched a public fund-raising drive. The group set up a table at the Farmers’ Market in Rotary Park to accept donations and also interested Heritage BC, the Columbia Basin Trust and several local businesses in the cause.

They also contacted Nelson Engineering, which performed a peripheral structural review on the old building and concluded it was a suitable candidate for restoration if work began quickly.

Not long after this, Council changed its position on the issue, deferring demolition for a year to give the Heritage Association time to raise money and organize vol-

FuN for the whole family!

Gerry Warner photo

Karl Schmideder and Don Miller working at the former Cranbrook Water and Electrical Building, unteers to stabilize and restore the historic structure. This the association did with a vengeance, hiring local bricklayer and masonry contractor Karl Schmideder to do the brickwork while Haberman organized association volunteers to find bricks and hold work bees to chip mortar off the old clay building blocks and wash them so they could be used again for restoration.

“It was neat because we were actually recycling them again because they originally came from an old mansion (the Riardon residence) on Heritage Hill,” says Haberman. In fact it was doubly “neat” because all of the exterior bricks used in the restoration were originally made by the Cranbrook Brick Company, a turnof-the-century factory that in the early 1900s churned out thousands of bricks that were used in many of Cranbrook’s most cherished heritage buildings, including Cranbrook City Hall, and can always be recognized by the “CBC” insignia in bold relief on the centre recess of every brick.

Meanwhile Schmideder, who finished his apprenticeship as a

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bricklayer under his father in 1978 and laid bricks all over Cranbrook and across the country, said he took the 44-day project on for one good reason. “I’ve always had a passion for old buildings because they add so much value to a community’s history and the individual people who live there. And I like a challenge.”

The first challenge Schmideder had to deal with was finding enough bricks to replace about one-fifth of all the bricks in the 80-year-old building.

But Haberman and more than a dozen volunteers from the Heritage Association and the community at large came running to his aid leaving no bush unturned in finding vintage Cranbrook bricks for the project. Some came from people’s backyards because bricks have a habit of being recycled over and over again.

A big stash came from the third-floor attic of Cranbrook City Hall where they’d mouldered away for many years. But the biggest stash of all was gathered from the grounds of the old St. Eugene Hospital which burned to the ground in 2004. They were donated

by Dick Dirkson, the owner of the property.

“We got several hundred out of there, but it took a lot of digging,” says Haberman.

Retired government worker Don Miller worked as Schmideder’s assistant on the project for seven weeks, sorting and washing bricks, mixing mortar and pouring concrete.

“If he (Schmideder) didn’t have an assistant it would have taken him much longer, probably three times as long.”

Asked why he volunteered for so long himself, Miller replied, “I do like old buildings. I think it’s a shame we have so few left and they keep tearing them down.”

Simply replacing the bricks was only part of the job. The southwest corner of the building had been knocked out of alignment because of frost heaves and had to be repaired in order to restore the structural strength of the walls and level the cement floor again. The unique, concrete quoins that interlock at each corner of the building and give it its unique “look” had to be strengthened and many of the narrow concrete slabs on the building’s “stepped” roof had to be

replaced.

Volunteers are now building a two-by-six wooden “wall-within-awall” in the inside perimeter of the building to support the new wood beam roof that should be installed within a week.

When that happens, the building will be essentially restored to its original state, but will only be a brick shell without most services except for electricity which will be installed by the City. Still to be decided is what the building will be used for and that’s a big question because the building is owned by the City even though the Cranbrook Heritage Association raised all the money and did all the work to restore it. In doing this, the association raised almost $30,000 through volunteer donations, garage sales, signature brick sales and funding from Heritage BC ($10,000) and the Columbia Basin Trust and the R.D.E.K. ($11,479) and generous donations in kind by local businesses including Salvador Ready Mix Concrete Ltd. that contributed two yards of sand and gravel for the mortar and cement footings, Sandor Rental Equipment Ltd.

that donated a cement mixer to mix concrete and Casey’s Flashing and Roofing that built the new roof and installed the flashing that went with it.

The association is also considering launching a “GoFundMe” drive on the Internet to cover the remaining costs of the building including the roof, doors and new windows. If you’d like to donate, go to the Go Fund Me link at: www. gofundme.com/LittleBrickBuildin.

Whatever happens to the building in the future, Cranbrook Heritage Association members already feel they’ve accomplished a lot by bringing the crumbling old structure back to the vintage condition it’s in now. “The only thing that was wrong with it was neglect,” says Haberman. “If the building had received some maintenance over the years, it would look as good as it does now.”

Association President Anna Majkowski says the project succeeded because everyone pitched in. “I’d like to thank all our members and others who volunteered their time as well as members of the business community who contributed in kind.”

Schmideder says he feels proud of his involvement in the project, adding the building is good for another 100 years. It also gives him a sense of accomplishment. “Most of us trades people want to leave something behind for future generations. It makes you feel you’re doing something for society and it gives me the feeling that I’ve left my (bricklayer’s) hand behind in it.”

As for the future of the restored, heritage building, it will be up to Cranbrook City Council. And one thing is for sure. No councillor will be calling it a “sick building” anymore.

Gerry Warner is with the Cranbrook Heritage Association

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Sonja’s Garden debated at Council meeting Continued from page 1

“Right now, Sonja’s Gardens, the owner can legitimately do those two buildings, it’s currently in our zoning bylaw that they can build those two buildings,” Popoff noted.

“The key issue for us is really just to do with the additional client services they wish to offer.

I think we can all agree that more client services for the people in those properties is a good thing, and would probably alleviate or should alleviate some of those concerns.”

Coun. Danielle Cardozo said having support services on site would be more of a benefit than not having them. She supported the amendment.

Coun. Tom Shypitka said there is a need for more affordable housing and client services.

Janice Ivan, executive director of Canadian Mental Health Association for the Kootenays, spoke about the development plans.

The CMHAK is a charity, non-profit organiza-

tion with longstanding ties to the community.

The main administration operates out of Cranbrook and works throughout the Kootenays.

“The nature of our services are much more what you would call upstream, as opposed to services that are more for persons with very serious needs,” Ivan said. “If we have someone who we’re serving or who comes to our door who has something very clinical and very specialized in nature, we refer those people on.”

CMHAK is multi funded in nature and not reliant on any one ministry.

“Over the years we have been very prudent with our finances and we have some surpluses that we’re proposing to dedicate to this project,” she said. “We plan to do this, if it goes through, without any government funding.”

In 1996, the property was approved to be finished in two phases.

“We were going to have 35 units, plus another two blocks of units — a total of 12 more,” she said. “At the very end that didn’t happen, but all of the services went in and that was considered a future phase.”

The complex is currently a mix of individual and family units, but she said over the years there has been a surge of needs for seniors housing. They also operate a number of seniors housing complexes around town, and she said there is an active wait list of 100 between the two.

“So what we thought was we need to proceed with phase two, but what the real need is is for single units for older adults who need affordable housing,” she said, adding that they decided on bringing more services, for seniors and families that live there, to the site as well.

The first bylaw is an OCP amendment that expands uses for the property by adding community amenity area, supportive service

Arne Petryshen

A malfunction with the wheelchair elevator meant one supporter of the Sonja’s Garden development plans couldn’t make it up the stairs to council chambers on Monday night. And so mayor and council went down to hear Mike Gauthier’s comments. program space, and office space at 1000 - 21st Avenue North.

The second bylaw is a zoning amendment bylaw to create a new zone, “Comprehensive Development Zone 6: CD-6 Sonja’s Garden Housing Develop-

ment”, and to rezone the subject property from “Multiple Family Residential Zone: R-5” to “Comprehensive Development Zone 6: CD-6 Sonja’s Garden Housing Development”.

In the report, city

staff noted they had reviewed the letters and identified key areas of concern expressed by nearby property owners or tenants. Concerns include: implications for future property values; noise arising from construction and

post-constr uction; street parking and traffic congestion; potential of future instances of domestic discord or unrest; potential for further future development on Sonja’s Garden and loss of green, open space.

make eye contact and back away slowly, taking the same route away that you came in.

If a bear makes snorting noises and charges, veering off at the last second, it is likely defensive behaviour, so continue to back away.

If bear spray needs to be deployed in an aggressive incident, be aware of wind direction and place yourself accordingly. Wait until the bear is 10-20 yards away and aim slightly downwards before spraying.

The Sparwood incident the latest in a string of grizzly encounters, as an angler fishing on Findlay Creek was mauled last week by a grizzly guarding a domestic cow carcass.

The man was bitten in the hand and the leg, but was able to return to

Canal Flats and received medical treatment at the Invermere Hospital.

Conservation officers removed the cow carcass from the area and no action was taken against the bear.

Closer to Cranbrook, Chad Dueck has returned home after receiving medical attention in Calgary following a grizzly mauling near the Spray Irrigation Field two weeks ago.

Dueck was out elk hunting on opening day of archery season when he encountered a grizzly with cubs. The bear charged Dueck, who fought off the animal with his bow. He received serious, but non life-threatening injuries and is currently recovering from surgery back home.

Four charged after drug bust Beware hungry bears of autumn RCMP

Early in the morning of Sept. 13, police executed a search warrant on a residence in Cranbrook. Six people were arrested, four are facing charges. Police seized several ounces of crack cocaine, cocaine, numerous Fentanyl pills, weapons, cash and paraphernalia associated to drug trafficking.

Also seized were items and equipment used for the production of freebase or crack cocaine.

“It’s believed that the subjects supplied illicit drugs to persons in the area, not just Cranbrook,” said Cpl. Chris Newel with the Kimberley RCMP. “Our Crime Reduction Unit was able respond and effectively shut the operation down within a short time of these persons arriving in Cranbrook.”

The Cranbrook/Kimberley RCMP Crime Reduction Unit launched an investigation into a man believed to be trafficking cocaine and Fentanyl pills. Once sufficient evidence was obtained, police applied for and were granted a search warrant under the Controlled Drugs and Substance

Act. Members of the Crime Reduction Unit, along with Cranbrook General Duty members and a Police Dog Service, arrested the six people. Two were released without charges and four are facing drug and Criminal Code charges. One man is from Cranbrook, two are from the Vancouver and one woman is from the Elk Valley.

One subject had outstanding warrants; two were already on court ordered conditions and have additional charges of Failing to Comply with a Court Order. All four were to appear in court Monday Sept. 14.

The Cranbrook/Kimberley RCMP would like to remind residents of the negative effects that drug trafficking has on their community, including an increase in other crimes, medical emergencies due to overdoes along with the exposure and unnecessary risk and violence associated to drug trade.

Police encourage anyone who has information on drug traffickers to report it to the RCMP or contact CrimeStoppers anonymously.

Continued from page 1 Conservation officers have attributed the sightings to to a poor berry season, which is drawing the bears closer to the valley as they search for food for winter hibernation — a cause confirmed by Tara Szkorupa, a wildlife biologist with the Fish and Wildlife Branch.

“We definitely agree with that, that’s something we’ve observed this year in a lot of areas — either that there was an early berry crop and so it’s not holding the bears up high right now, or even the total failure of berries in some areas, so that is something that we’re all quite concerned about and really trying to get the word out to people to be vigilant and avoid having

any attractants around camp and at home.”

Within municipalities and rural homes, attractants such as household garbage, pet food, compost bins, orchards and bird feeders can lure bears to household backyards.

Keep garbage indoors and feed pets indoors. During bear season, it’s advisable to avoid hanging bird feeders, while grass and yard clippings are recommended for an outdoor compost, with indoor worm composters are recommended for food scraps.

If you’re out in the backcountry, pack bear spray and have it on a belt for easy access. If you encounter a bear, remain calm, don’t

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The Kootenay Railway Pensioners Association will be having a Social Luncheon at 12:30 pm on Tuesday Sept. 15th, 2015 at Mission Hills Golf Course. 3320 Theatre Road, Cranbrook BC. All Railway Retiree’s and Spouses are welcome. RSVP by Sept. 11th, 2015. For further information, please contact Secretary Frances Allen at 250-426-2720 or Myrtle 250-426-2378, Jean 250-4268338 An Artist’s Retreat with Joseph Cross at the Bull River Guest Ranch Sept 15-18 - Cranbrook. Join acclaimed BC artist Joseph Cross (PSA) for four days of personalized coaching in landscape painting at scenic Bull River Guest Ranch. Sept. 15-18. Sponsored by the Kimberley Arts Council. Info: www.paintersretreat.ca or call Kimberley Arts Council at 250-427-4919 Kimberley Aquatic Centre FREE FAMILY SWIM: Wednesday, Sept.16 6:00-7:00pm is sponsored by Kimberley Health Care Auxiliary.

Persons 18 years & younger must be accompanied by an adult.

Fall Conference:“FIRE from the RIVER”A weekend of Refreshment and Hope. House of Hope 629-6th St. N. W., Cranbrook. Speakers: Chuck and Anna Maher from Texas and with Bethel Activation Ministries. Sept. 18-19, 2015, Friday night at 7pm, Saturday 10 am, 2pm 7pm and Sunday morning 10 am. Registration: www. ihopecranbrook.ca or call 250-421-3784. No charge Free will Offering received.

The Royal Cdn Legion Branch 24 Cranbrook would like to Thank our First Responders for all they do by hosting an Appreciation BBQ, Friday Sept 18 from 4:00-7:00 pm, lower level of the Heritage Inn. Please contact the Legion 250-426-8531 or email rcladmin@telus.net with approximate numbers by Wed Sept 16.

Saturday, September 19, 2015, Negro Creek Circuit Hike Further info: Phone: Lorne 250-426-8864 Kimberley Grannie Gogos CAR BOOT (Trunk) SALE-Saturday Sept.

19. Vendors can sell their items by purchasing a ticket ($20) from Gail 427-5222 or Donna 427-5052. Vendors receive free advertising & free refreshments. Buy a ticket to reserve your personal space & sell your items flea market style in the Centre 64 parking lot.

Sunday, September 20, 2015, Hike to FISHER PEAK. Further information: Phone: Michel 250-581-0660 “Myrtle the Magnificent” Sunday, Sept 20, 10:00 am. Leader - Suzanne McAllister (250-427-7043). Meet at the Kimberley Nordic Centre parking lot for a hike up Myrtle Mountain. Bring snacks/lunch and water.

35th Annual Terry Fox Run is being held on September 20, 2015 from 10 am to 4 pm at the College of the Rockies and the adjoining Community College. This is a charitable fundraising event for all ages, kids, teens, 19+ and seniors. Lots of prizes. Pick up your pledge forms from Baker Street Café, Save-on-Foods, Northwest Grill, Home Hardware and Elizabeth Lake Lodge. All funds are raised for Cancer Research and we are an independent foundation separate from the Canadian Cancer Society or any other National organizations. Contact Lynda at 250-417-6800 for more information.

ONGOING 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 Chateau Kimberley Art Gallery, 78 Howard St.,10am-8pm, through to Oct. 15. Featuring art by Jean Pederson, Joseph Cross, MaryAnn Bidder, Lynne Grillmair, Jeannette Oostlander, Karen Arrowsmith, Marianne Rennick, Jeanie Miller, Darlene Purnell & Teresa Knight.

Masonic Lodges of B.C. and Yukon will supply transportation to cancer patients who have arrived at Kelowna or Vancouver. This free service will be at the destination point. Example: from airport to clinic and clinic to airport on return, also around the destination city. Info may be received from your doctor, Canadian Cancer Society, or by phoning Ron at 250-426-8159.

“The Way” Introductory Orthodox Christianitym at Kimberley Public Library (Upstairs room) Thursday evenings until October 22nd: 7 -9 pm. Drop in to any or all sessions. Contact: Fr. Andrew: 250-4201582 or frandrewapplegate@gmail.com for info.

MILITARY AMES is a social/camaraderie/support group that meets the first and third Tuesdays of the month in the Kimberley Public Library reading room. All veterans are welcome. For more information call Cindy @ 250 919 3137.

Hey Kimberley! We need you as Big Brothers and Big Sisters. One hour a week. YOU can make a difference in a Child’s life that will last a life time. Info: 250-499-3111.

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. cancervolunteer.ca and register as a volunteer.

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 Place your notice in your “What’s Up?” Community Calendar FREE of charge. This column is intended for the use of clubs and non-profit organizations to publicize their coming events — provided the following requirements are met: • Notices will be accepted two weeks prior to the event.

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Council approves storage facility A r n e P e t rys h e n

Cranbrook city council approved an application for a new storage use for a building along 1st Avenue South.

The application for the amendment to the city’s zoning bylaw comes from Kurt Swanson of KL Swanson Enterprises Ltd for a property at 300 - 1st Avenue South.

City staff recommended that, subject to the public input received prior to the meeting, council give third reading and adopt the bylaw.

Coun. Isaac Hockley said that he initially had concerns when the proposal was brought forward.

“Then the business owner brought the concerns to the staff and they worked on them together and came up with these additional zoning regulations,” he said. “It’s exactly what we want to see businesses in town do, so yeah I support it.”

Coun. Tom Shypitka noted there were a number of entires

at the last minute of people for and against the bylaw.

“I totally support the motion as far as city staff is concerned and I will be supporting this bylaw,” Shypitka said.

Coun. Ron Popoff was part of the advisory planning commission (APC) that reviewed the application.

“I just want to share with council, that while there was a recommendation against the proposal, my understanding from the rationale shared by those the APC, was it was less to do with any urgent red flags that this was a bad idea, if anything it was to do with ‘the zoning exists in these locations, so why should we change and set a precedent on it?’”

Popoff said he supports the application.

Shypitka noted that it is all case-by-case situations.

“This is something that is in the town, we’re changing this from Highway Corridor usage to Light Industrial, and both of

those land use designations are very, very similar,” Shypitka said. “Therefore I think that we’re doing our job as council looking at this as a case-bycase and find out what is the best use for land.”

Shypitka said one concern he heard was about an increase in traffic.

“The proponent has actually suggested that he would have limited hours, and that’s helpful for sure,” he said. “We can’t forget that before this new use was being looked at, it was a drywall place with forklifts going up and down the alley. I think this is actually going to be better for this concerned citizen.”

Mayor Lee Pratt said this was a case of the business owner and business community discussing with council what they want and require.

“I think it’s good that council shows that it can make a decision and everything is not written in stone,” Pratt said.

“I think, personally, if a

business in Cranbrook comes to council and they are willing to work and cooperate with planning and development and council, I think we should try to support it as much as we can.”

City staff noted that Swanson agreed to a number of provisions to be included in the C- 2 zone that will regulate the storage use.

City staff noted that Swanson has confirmed that the front of the building will remain a retail space so the storage use will be less visible to people passing by and not visible from Highway 93/95.

An additional request as part of the application is to permit fencing up to 2.7 m.

There are also plans to landscape the retail side of the building as funds become available.

It should also be noted that under the zoning, the storage of automobiles, vehicles, RVs, boats, trailers and heavy equipment will be prohibited.

RCMP confirm remains found in Amber Alert case Continued from page 1

The tragedy began to unfold in the wee hours of Monday morning when Hailey’s father, Terry Blanchette, 27, was killed in his home and his daughter was taken away in a speeding white van.

Charges are now pending against a 22-year-old man from Blairmore, 220 km southwest of Calgary.

“It is my very sad duty to inform you that we have found

the body of two-year-old Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette in a rural location near Blairmore,” RCMP Supt. Tony Hamori told a brief news conference late Tuesday night.

He declined to take questions, saying more information would be released Wednesday morning. He did say officers were at the scene where Hailey had been found and were processing evidence.

“We extend our deepest condolences to the family for the loss of Hailey and also for the loss of her father, Terry.

This is a sad day for the investigators, the citizens of Blairmore and all the Canadians who hoped Hailey would be found an returned unharmed. Our goal now is to complete the investigation.”

He thanked RCMP personnel for their “determination and professionalism” in han-

dling the investigation.

“I can report that media and social media engagement on this disturbing case has been very helpful to the investigation. This speaks to the power of the greater community’s collective efforts in the support of public safety.”

Hamori said the name of the suspect who was taken into custody on Tuesday would not be released until after charges had formally been laid.

Retail, real estate keep B.C. in black Tom Fle tcher Black Press

VICTORIA – The B.C. government is on track for a surplus of $277 million for the fiscal year ending next spring, despite a costly forest fire season and a continued decline in revenues from natural gas and other resource revenues.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong released results from the first quarter of the year Tuesday, showing the surplus down $7 million from the budget forecasts made in February.

It showed revenues higher than expected from income taxes and property transfer tax, as well as continued rapid growth in retail sales and sales tax revenues.

Government spending is now forecast to be $381 million more than

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Finance Minister Mike de Jong shows how income and property transfer taxes (at left) were higher than expected in the first part of the year. the budget, with costs of this year’s forest fire season above $300 million.

That’s more than last year, but still below the total for 2009 and B.C.’s worst fire year, 2003.

With similar surpluses expected for the next two years, de Jong said the government has room for some “mod-

est” spending increases on programs. But the main emphasis remains paying down operating debt left from the deficit years that followed the financial crisis of 2008.

De Jong said the current trend would see operating debt paid off by 2019-20, for the first time since the 1970s.

Capital debt for major construction continues to grow, but not as quickly as the size of the economy.

The B.C. economy continues to add employment, but less than one half of one per cent per year. NDP finance critic Carole James said manufacturing and for-

estry are struggling while the B.C. Liberal government maintains its focus on natural gas exports.

“We’re almost at the four-year mark for the premier’s jobs plan, and here we are, continuing to see less than half of the number they predicted in terms of job growth,” James said.

The opposition has focused on the government’s reduced spending on post-secondary education, and charging adults $550 per credit for high school courses they take after graduation, in order to qualify for further studies.

“Now’s the time that we should be providing support for people who want to retrain, who want to go back to school, who want to look for for those job opportunities,” James said.

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Cranbrook Public Library Display

The display at the Library for the month of September is paintings done in coffee, acrylic, watercolour, charcoal and gold by Monique Bolduc.

CDAC Presents: We Paint Group Exhibition

This September, the Cranbrook and District Arts Council presents the “We Paint Group” Exhibition. This show features various styles of artworks from the Kimberley Centre 64 Painting group. The Pieces will decorate the Gallery from Tuesday September 1st to Friday September 25th. The Gallery is located at: 135 – 10th Avenue South, Cranbrook.

For more information contact Marisa Phillips – CDAC Administrator at: 250-426-4223 or email: cdac@shaw.ca

In the Gallery at Centre 64 Purcell Mountain Painters

Purcell Mountain Painters (PMP) was formed about 15 years ago and currently has over 30 members. They include experienced and successful painters and first time artists. The purpose of the group is to help members to improve their skills, learn and share new techniques, and learn how to further their careers as artists.

This show will feature paintings by both newer and more experienced artists, some of whom will be present at a public reception on Saturday, September 5, from 2 to 4 p.m., to talk about their work to those attending.

Centre 64 Fall Jazz Series

Sept.. 26: The Tyler Hornby Trio-Hardcore Swing and Funky Grooves: Oct. 17th Alittle Voodoo- Contemporary Blues ; Nov.21st- The Alan Breckner Trio Traditional “Loungy” Singer Songwriter Jazz. Tickets available at Centre 64.

Shows tend to sell out early so get your tickets soon!

Thurs. Sept. 17 Meet the candidate

If you’d like to meet Liberal candidate Don Johnston, Betty Aitchi-

son will be hosting an informal meet and greet at her home, 47 Howard Street this Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 18 Key City Theatre Open House

4-7 pm You are Invited!! We can’t wait to show you our fresh new look for 2015-16. We are also excited to tell you about our exciting upcoming performance season. Drop in any time between 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm on Friday September 18. Enjoy entertainment from The Dean Smith Experience, Dawson Rutledge. Cash Bar and refreshments available

September 19 Speed Watch Golf Tournament

The organizers of the Kimberley RCMP/Speed Watch Golf Tournament are pleased to announce that this years event is planned for September 19, 2015. As usual we will be having a 1 p.m. shotgun start with lots of prizes for all those in attendance. We look forward to seeing everyone there so please watch for further announcements.

Sat. Sept. 19 At B.J.’s Pub

Tom Savage, Take the Wheel and I’ll Steer Tour.

Saturday, September 19th - BJ’s Creekside Pub - Kimberley, BC

Sat. Sept. 19 Gogo Grannies sale

Kimberley Gogo Grannies are hosting a car boot (truck) sale.

Vendors can sell their items by pre-purchasing a ticket ($20) from Gail 427-5222 or Donna 4275052. Vendors receive free advertising & free refreshments. Buy a ticket to reserve your personal space & sell your items on September 19th fun flea market style in the Centre 64 parking lot. All ticket proceeds go to the Stephen Lewis Foundation Grandmothers’Campaign to assist African grandmothers who are raising their orphaned grandchildren due to the AIDS pandemic.

Artist’s Retreat

Join acclaimed BC artist Joseph Cross (PSA) for four days of personalized coaching in landscape painting at scenic Bull River Guest Ranch.

September 15-18. This all-inclusive retreat includes lodging, all gour-

It’s a tie! This year the People’s Choice Award from Arts on the Edge will be shared between two artists for their individual pieces of art. The winners are: ‘Red Skies’ Fibre art by Darlene Purnel and ‘Offering’ Wood/Steel sculpture by Rob Toller. Congratulations! Both pieces received an equal number of votes from our gallery visitors and were very closely followed by ‘Only This and Nothing More’ by Ashley Huff, ‘Incognito’ by Lynne Luker and ‘Whispers of Freedom’ by Sam Millard. This year’s People’s Choice Award was sponsored by Western Financial Group. met meals, instruction, guided hikes, indoor and outdoor painting locations, and evening programs. Explore your creative process amid the Fall colours of the beautiful Bull River area under the guidance of Joseph Cross. Sponsored by the Kimberley Arts Council. For more information: www.paintersretreat.ca or call the Kimberley Arts Council at 250-427-4919

Sunday, Sept. 20 Myrtle the Magnificent

Sunday, Sept 20, 10:00 am. Leader - Suzanne McAllister (250427-7043) Meet at the Kimberley Nordic Centre parking lot for a hike up Myrtle Mountain.

Bring snacks/lunch and water.

Sunday, Sept. 20 Open Gate Garden Party

Wildsight Kimberley/ Cranbrook in pleased to host a Harvest Party and Gazebo Opening on Sunday September 20th.

The celebration will be starting at 2pm at the Kimberley Open Gate Garden on Rotary Drive, and will include harvesting, fun family activities, apple pressing, and the unveiling of the new gazebo.

September 21

Cranbrook Garden Club The Cranbrook Garden Club’s next meeting is in the hall at Christ Church Anglican, Monday, Sept. 21, at 7 pm.

Come out and join us.

New members are always welcome. For more info call April at 778-517-1222.

‘Sept. 22 and 24 Can your tomatoes workshop

The Cranbrook Food Action Committee and Wildsight Kimberley/ Cranbrook will be hosting the first session “Can Your Tomatoes!” of their three part Fall Kitchen Workshop Series. Each workshop will run from 7-9pm, with “Can Your Tomatoes” offered on September 22nd at McKim Middle School in Kimberley and September 24th at the Community Connections Society Kitchen in Cranbrook.

Sept. 26 to Oct. 3 Journey through Zentangle

Show is open to all Tanglers with opening Sept. 26 2 to 4 p.m. Artists may submit three pieces that can be free standing or Gallery ready for hanging. All art must be to the Vault Gallery at Cranbrook Photo

by Thursday, September 24 2 to 4 p.m. or Friday, September 25, 2 to 4 p.m.

Exhibit forms are available at Centre 64 Kimberley, The Vault Gallery and CDAC. contact J. Ough 250-602-9444 or C. Hagen 250-489-1759.

Friday, Sept. 25 Aggie’s Fall Fling

Cranbrook Caregivers might be dancing a little jig thanks to an up and coming fundraiser.

The September 25 benefit dance, music by the Noteables, is being organized by Kevin Dunk and the Cranbrook Caregivers Group. Heritage Inn, 7 p.m. Tickets $10 per person.

Sunday, Sept. 27 Friendly Fungus Frenzy

Sunday, Sept 27, 9 am. Leader - Bill Olmsted (250-427-3627) This is a guided tour .of fungi in the Horse Barn Valley.

Meet at the Matthew Creek turn-off to arrange rides. Bring snacks/ lunch & water. Please phone Bill to confirm attendance.

Sunday, Sept. 27 Dean Brody and Paul Brandt

Canadian country music stars Dean Brody and Paul Brandt will play Western Financial Place – Cranbrook, BC, Doors: 6 p.m. Show: 7 p.m. Tick-

The first film in the Rotary Club of Cranbrook Sunrise Rockies Film Series is Amy, a look at the short, tragic life of mega-talented British singer Amy Winehouse. ets also available at Western Financial Place Box Office. Tickets (incl.

GST) $35.00, $49.50, $69.50 (Plus FMF & Service charges) Reserved seating / all ages.

Monday, Sept. 28 Quartetto Gelato Key City Theatre Key City Theatre and Western Financial are excited to present Quartetto Gelato! Virtuosic showpieces, pyrotechnical solos, blazing gypsy showpieces, multi-instrument mastery and a brilliant operatic tenor.

September 28 at 7:30 pm at Key City Theatre. Buy tickets online at www. keycitytheatre.com or call 250-426-7006

Rotary Club of Cranbrook Sunrise Rockies Film Series

Thursday, October 1st, 2015. 7 p.m. Columbia Theatre Welcome back to another exciting season for our monthly film series!

We are pleased to announce our first film of the new series will be AMY, a documentary based on the short life of Amy Winehouse. AMY is directed by Asif Kapadia who also directed Senna and if you have had a chance to see that film you will appreciate the

talent! Tickets on sale now at Lotus Books at a cost of $10. Don’t miss out!

Sat. October 3 Harvest Tea

Harvest Tea on Oct 3 from 1pm to 4pm at Centennial Centre, Kimberley. Cost is $6/person. Includes coffee/tea, sandwiches, and desserts. Live music (The Bunk House Boys and The Round Up are playing) gift baskets to raffle off, baking and canning for sell, and door prizes to be drawn throughout the tea. Everyone is welcome.

October 17 Ethan Russell Key City Theatre

Best Seat in the House. Live Multimedia Rock Photography Presentation. Ethan Russell is the only photographer to have shot album covers for The Beatles, The Who and The Rolling Stones. An evening with Ethan Russell goes beyond a mere slide show of some of the greatest photos of the rock era – It is to travel through time.

October 17 at 7:30 pm at Key City Theatre. Buy tickets online at www. keycitytheatre.com or call 250-426-7006. Presented in partnership with College of the Rockies, Cranbrook and District Arts Council and Key City Theatre.

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The socialists Jez and Bernie Jeremy “Jez” Corbyn and Bernie Sanders are very much alike, and so are their ambitions. Corbyn wants to lead Britain’s Labour Party into the next election and become prime minister; Sanders wants to win the Democratic Party nomination and become the next president of the United States. And then each man plans to turn his country sharply to the left.

To the vast surprise of practically everybody, Corbyn has just achieved the first stage of his master plan: on Saturday, he became the leader of the Labour Party. When he entered the leadership contest, the bookmakers were quoting odds of 200-to-one against him, but he ended up winning the leadership by a landslide.

Senator Sanders was also seen as a complete no-hoper when he threw his hat into the ring: 74 years old (Corbyn is 66), no money and no wellhoned political machine behind him (ditto), and far too left-wing to win the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, let alone the presidency. But something unexpected is also happening with Sanders’s campaign.

There were no other high-profile candidates for the Democratic nomination: most people assumed that it was Hillary Clinton’s for the asking. But then Sanders began to creep up on her, especially in the two states where the first primaries will be held, New Hampshire and Iowa. The last three polls have shown Sanders leading Clinton in New Hampshire by an average margin of 7.5 percent, and he is now one percent ahead in Iowa too.

Sanders is not as far left as Corbyn, of course. No elected US politician is as far left as Corbyn, who promises to nationalise the railways and energy companies, scrap university tuition fees, bring back rent controls, raise taxes and introduce a national maximum wage to cap the wages of bank-

ers and other high earners, impose an arms embargo on Israel, and get rid of Britain’s nuclear weapons.

When asked if there were any circumstances under which he would deploy British armed forces abroad, Corbyn replied: “I’m sure there are some but I can’t think of them at the moment.” He’s a republican, although he says that ending the monarchy is “not the fight I’m interested in.” He’s a vegetarian who does not own a car, and he looks a little like Obi-Wan Kenobi. He is, in other words, the Real McCoy. Bernie Sanders, by contrast, lives in the United States, where many Gwynne people regard “democratic socialism” as akin to Dyer devil worship. He favours universal healthcare funded by taxes (supported by all parties in Britain) and publicly funded elections with strict limits on corporate donations (ditto), and he too advocates free higher education and higher taxes on the rich. That’s already “socialist” in an American political context.

But he’s not planning to nationalise anything, bring in rent controls, end all American military interventions overseas, or ban arms sales to Israel. Whatever his private opinons may be, he is running for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, and nobody in the Democratic Party has advocated anything that radical within living memory.Sanders is as far left within the American political spectrum (which doesn’t extend very far in that direction) as Corbyn is within the broader British spectrum. Could he really pull off a Corbyn-style upset and win the Democratic nomination?

It depends on whether Hillary Clinton’s current stumbles end in a big fall in her support. It could happen. Last week’s opinon polls revealed that she had lost her lead over her two likeliest Republican op-

ponents in next year’s presidential election, Jeb Bush or Ben Carson — and even Donald Trump was drawing level with her.

The Democratic National Convention is still ten months away, but it’s already late for anybody other than Vice-President Joe Biden to enter the race with a good chance of winning — and Biden is deeply conflicted about running. So if Clinton fades, Sanders would have a chance: the odds against him are already a good deal shorter than 200-to-one. Whether he could actually win the presidency is a different question.

British pundits were unanimous in saying that Corbyn has no chance of winning a national election and becoming prime minister. Former Labour leader and prime ministerTony Blair went further: “If Jeremy Corbyn becomes leader it won’t be a defeat like 1983 or 2015 at the next election. It will mean rout, possibly annihilation.”

But Labour just lost the last election, and the next one is five years away. There is still time to change horses if Corbyn isn’t working out. Whereas the US election is next year. Could Sanders win it? The professional pundits and pollsters in the United States say no, because he’s too far from the mainstream.

Sanders just points to the despair that grips so many middle-class Americans as the rich get ever richer and their own living standards stagnate. “Don’t let anybody tell you that we’re radical, that we’re outside the mainstream. We are the mainstream.”

He could be right: it’s the same despair with business as usual that has pushed Donald Trump out in front of the Republican nomination race.

And that would be something, wouldn’t it? Bernie Sanders vs. Donald Trump for the presidency. At last Americans get a real choice.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist based in London

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For 20 seasons, Kimberley’s Iona and Lyle Prier have opened their house to 60 different junior hockey players Taylor Rocc a Sports Editor

In the world of junior hockey, the words ‘behind the scenes’ can imply many things.

Whether its the general manager working the phones to bolster his personnel or the equipment staff ensuring sweaters are freshly laundered ahead of a Saturday home game, plenty of roles come to mind when one mentions ‘behind the scenes’ in regards to a local junior hockey team.

But there’s one vital place within a successful junior hockey organization that often goes overlooked.

For every player that comes from out of town to play for a junior hockey team like the Kimberley Dynamiters of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League, there is a billet family waiting with open arms and, in all likelihood, fantastic cooking.

As the Dynamiters opened the 2015-16 KIJHL season Saturday night against the Golden Rockets at the Kimberley Civic Centre, the organization took a moment to recognize the efforts of one of their most dedicated billet families.

Iona and Lyle Prier have been opening their door to Kimberley Dynamiters players since 1996. With the 2015-16 season underway, the Kimberley couple are entering their 20th season billeting for the local Junior B organization.

Back in September 1996, with their son getting married and their daughter moving down

the highway to Cranbrook, Iona and Lyle were suddenly left with an empty nest.

But that didn’t last for very long.

A conversation at work got the Priers considering the prospects of billeting, but they weren’t left with much time to think on it.

“The Priers have welcomed me into their home with open arms. They make me feel as if I am at home, and they are a huge reason I do call Kimberley home.”

Jordan Busch Dynamiters defenceman “Within the next week I got a phone call from the general manager,” Iona recalled on Saturday night ahead of the Nitros home opener against the Golden Rockets. “’Can you take two boys tonight?’

“Well, we weren’t ready for two boys, but we’ve been billeting ever since.”

That fateful night, Stewart Sacharuk and Rob Yamashita were the first Dynamiters to walk into the Priers home.

Since then, Iona and Lyle have provided for

60 different junior hockey players, welcoming two each season.

This year, rookie forward Justin Van Tetering, an 18-year-old native of Red Deer, Alta., joins veteran defenceman Jordan Busch, 20, living with the Priers.

Busch -- the KIJHL’s reigning Eddie Mountain Division Defenceman of the Year and a native of Edmonton, Alta. -- is entering his third season living with Iona and Lyle Prier.

“The Priers have welcomed me into their home with open arms,” Busch said Tuesday.

“They make me feel as if I am at home, and they are a huge reason why I do call Kimberley home.

“I’ve grown a lot as a person in this house. My first year was the hardest being away from home…The Priers made it an easy transition moving to Kimberley.

“It’s small things like having good meals away from the rink so you can perform on the ice, or even just being able to have a conversation with them really makes being away from home a lot easier.”

The hurdle of moving away from home at an early age often provides the greatest challenge for young junior hockey players.

While plenty of time is spent at the rink or at school, time spent at home can often be the difference-maker in a young player finding the path to success, both on and off the ice.

“Dedicated billet families are so crucial to the success of our organization,” said Karrie

Taylor Rocca Photo

Billet families help provide a home away from home for many junior hockey players across Canada, including right here in the East Kootenay. Above: Ahead of Saturday’s home-opener, the Kimberley Dynamiters recognized 20 years of service from the Prier family. From left to right: Dynamiters defenceman Jordan Busch (#10), Iona Prier, Lyle Prier, and Golden Rockets forward Ian Desrosiers pose for a ceremonial puck drop. Busch has spent all three of his KIJHL seasons as a billet with the Priers.

Hall, who volunteered as the Dynamiters billet coordinator (and houses two of her own billets) for four years before moving into the role of secretary this season.

“You can never have too many quality billet families.

“Every player that has ever been billeted with the Priers has always requested to go back there the following season. They’re such a positive influence on the boys. That sort of family atmosphere helps our players grow into men off the ice, while allowing them to strive for success on the ice.”

Though his own children have moved out his home, Lyle has relished the opportunity to maintain a father-figure role for each of the players he has gotten to know over the years as they learn the ropes of living without their own family.

From his experience, there’s a delicate balance to be maintained -- providing support and a comfortable home while also giving responsibilities and encouraging the boys to learn how to become men.

“These guys, I look at them as somebody’s son, somebody’s grandson,” Lyle said. “We treat them that way.

“We have been blessed. I keep telling the billet coordinator she gives us the best boys each season.

“I thank the Lord that we’ve been able to do it.

We’ve had excellent cooperation from the Dynamiter organization and the boys. It’s been great.”

In their 20th season, Iona and Lyle are regular fixtures at the Kimberley Civic Centre, coming for each home game to support their billet boys and the Dynamiters.

“It’s nice to see them at every home game cheering us on,” Busch said. “I love coming back to the house and

being able to talk to them about the game.

“They are so easy to be around. They make you feel comfortable.

“I have to give a big thanks to the Priers for the way they treat me away from the rink.”

Before opening their home to junior hockey billets, the Priers didn’t really consider themselves hockey fans. Now, you might call them diehard Dynamiter fans.

“It’s been a good experience and we get to come to all the hockey games. Now, our kids think we’re crazy,” Iona said with a laugh.

“They’re not hockey fans but their parents are.”

Ice defenceman suspended two games for check from behind it was, but those are the consequences of those plays.”

Mortlock sat out Saturday’s 3-2 overtime loss to the Prince George Cougars and will miss Thursday’s pre-season tilt with the Lethbridge Hurricanes to complete his suspension.

The 19-year-old native of Medicine Hat,

Alta., came to the Kootenay Ice on a tryout this fall, after being released by the Regina Pats following the 2015 WHL Bantam Draft.

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played the next shift on the power play.

“I don’t think there was anything malicious or intentful on Nathyn’s part. It was just one of those plays below the goal line where he caught the kid on the wrong side of the shoulder and he went into the wall funny. I think it looked a lot worse than

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Kootenay Ice defenceman Nathyn Mortlock has been suspended for two games after receiving a checking from behind major penalty and game misconduct against the Seattle Thunderbirds on Sept.

11 in Kennewick, Wash.

The supplementary

discipline was handed down by the Western Hockey League Monday.

“Nobody really saw [the hit] that clearly,” said Luke Pierce, Ice head coach, Sunday after returning from Kennewick. “We all kind of looked up and saw the kid go into the wall.

“Luckily, he was all right. He came back and

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) You could be dragging far more than you realize. Motivate yourself by working on a project that has been on the back burner. Be willing to ask a partner to pitch in and help you. You have done plenty of favors for this person in the past. Tonight: Chill out at home.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) If you are angry with someone, do yourself a favor and opt for a discussion rather than holding in your feelings and exploding. You might be surprised how much can be handled calmly in this situation. Tonight: Let someone explain where he or she is coming from.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Clear the air in a sensitive way.

You will be surprised by what you can accomplish once you have aired out a problem. Your schedule becomes busier and busier. Be ready for a pleasant diversion or some interference, depending on your outlook. Tonight: Squeeze in some exercise.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Extend yourself, and be open to a different approach, especially regarding a domestic matter.

You will be the one in charge who has the final say on what goes on in your home. Relaxing your boundaries might be difficult. Tonight: Add some spice to the mix.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You might not realize that you often come off as pushy. Today, someone could start backing away because of what he or she perceives your attitude to be. A conversation is likely to be melodramatic later in the day.

Tonight: Have a long-overdue talk with a family member.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You might be at the point of changing direction, but try to hang in there a little while longer. With Jupiter, the planet of luck, in your sign, there could be a sudden shift in what is going on. Communication brings better results in the afternoon.

Tonight: Say what you feel.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You could become the office

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cheerleader this morning, as you seem to express so much positive energy and enthusiasm. Be aware of the costs of choices you make in the afternoon. Listen to what is being said, but clarify where you stand. Tonight: Make it your treat.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You might wonder why you have experienced such extremes lately. You seem to go from wanting to cocoon at home to feeling ready for nearly anything. Do not get into someone else’s conflict, even if you are vested in the outcome. Tonight: Whatever suits your fancy.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You could be in a situation where you would prefer to share more of what is happening within you. Do this in the morning, as others are likely to be more receptive then. All you need to do is observe and listen.

Cut off someone who is being sarcastic. Tonight: Take a personal night.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You might be baffled by a boss’s response to you. Clearly, this

person has an issue with something you have done. In a discussion with him or her, make an attempt to clear the air without getting personal. Neutralize any negativity. Tonight: Join a friend.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You will be on top of a project and have the perspective needed to bring it to fruition. How you see a personal matter could change after a conversation.

Please confirm what you have heard before reacting. In the long run, verifying is the smart thing to do. Tonight: A force to behold.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You might be able to visualize a better interaction with someone who is key to your life. Sometimes you get in a tangle with this person. Neither of you is comfortable with the situation.

Have this discussion in a good moment. Tonight: Say “yes” to a fun invitation.

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Her ex’s gambling problem destroyed the marriage. Her son was 10 years old at the time of his parents’ divorce, and he was already unruly, uncontrollable and slacking off at school. Immediately after the divorce, the father remarried and does not keep in contact.

Lena decided to send her son to a prestigious school in her home country. She believed that her family, who lived there, could better take care of him and help him do well in school. She had to work overtime every single day to afford the tuition. He graduated as valedictorian and went to college in Australia. Again, Lena worked very hard to pay the full tuition.

When he was a junior, her son returned to the U.S. and said he was taking a break from college. After several months, he decided to “get a job” instead of returning to school. But a year has passed, and he hasn’t earned a dime.

We recently learned from Lena that her son has been using drugs and physically assaulting her, saying that she ruined his childhood by sending him overseas. She asked him to consider a rehab facility, but he refuses. Lena now fears for her life. He has attacked her many times asking for money to buy drugs.

She is heartbroken about how her only child has turned out. I keep telling her to call the police, but she has begged me not to. She doesn’t want to destroy his future by sending him to prison. What should we do?

-- A Reader Dear Reader: If Lena cannot get her drugaddicted, abusive son out of her home and refuses to call the authorities, she should get out of there before he does permanent harm.

Please call your local state domestic violence agency or the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (thehotline. org) and ask how you can help. Also, please encourage Lena to contact Because I Love You (bily.org), or Families Anonymous (familiesanonymous.org), support groups for parents in similar situations.

Dear Annie: I am a pastor and recently conducted a funeral at our church for a beloved member. In accordance with the family’s wishes, a friend of the deceased was allowed to speak for a few minutes during the service. Unfortunately, the “friend” proceeded to tell inappropriate stories. After he’d spoken for quite some time, I asked him to allow others to talk, but he refused to yield. Finally, an angry family member asked him to sit down, but the damage had already been done.

May I offer three cardinal rules for speaking at a funeral?

1. Keep your remarks brief -- less than seven minutes. Write and practice what you’re going to say.

2. This is not a comedy club. Though you may share a funny story about the deceased, do not say anything that would humiliate that person or their family.

3. Do not brag about yourself. The service is not about you. -- Grieving Pastor Dear Pastor: Many folks, when confronted with the death of a loved one, say amazingly inappropriate things. Thank you for reminding them to think before speaking.

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