Cranbrook Daily Townsman, October 30, 2015

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Joint meeting works out common ground Cranbrook and Kimberley councils meet for first time since municipal election

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Cranbrook and Kimberley city councils met on Tuesday night to discuss joint initiatives between the two communities. The meeting was the first joint council meeting that the two cities have had since the new councils came onboard last election. Cranbrook Mayor Lee Pratt said it has been in the works for a while and he has had meetings with Kimberley Mayor Don McCormick over the past year. “Going back to square one, during the election Mayor McComick and myself introduced ourselves to each other and had a couple meetings,” Pratt said. “We decided then

and there that what’s good for Cranbrook is good for Kimberley, and what’s good for Kimberley is good for Cranbrook. We decided that if we were elected we would lean towards working together in getting some activity going for the region that would be positive for both communities.” Pratt said they decided it was time to introduce the councils to each other. He noted that with Cranbrook being a new council and some new additions to Kimberley, the two councils didn’t really know each other. Mayor McCormick said that there are a lot of common initiatives that the two communities share and are work-

ing towards. “So staying on top of that and making sure we’re supporting it in the best possible way is really important,” McCormick said. “The meeting (Tuesday) night was the first one to

kick that off.” McCormick said the co-council meetings went back as far as the days Ross Priest was the mayor of Cranbrook and Jim Ogilvie was the mayor of Kimberley. “They saw that given

the communities were close together, we should be trying to work a little closer together. Unfortunately those meetings happened once a year and there wasn’t a lot of follow up and there wasn’t an

awful lot of things on the agenda that warranted work moving forward.” McCormick said he and Mayor Pratt have been working since the last election to figure out how the two communi-

ties can work much closer together for mutual benefit. He said in the past the joint initiatives have had a tough time getting traction.

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Red’s rock and roll radio revolution Legendary disc jockey recalls the beginning of an era

BAR RY CO ULTER

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t the moment John Lennon swore at Red Robinson on a stage in Vancouver, the Beatles and all involved with their first ever Canadian show in 1964 were facing chaos, riot and tumult the like of which had never seen before. But by that time, Red was used to that kind of situation. Red Robinson, the legendary Vancouver DJ, spoke to the Cranbrook Daily Townsman in advance the Arts Club production of Red Rock Diner, the musical revue based on his groundbreaking 1950s radio show, playing at

the Key City Theatre Nov. 14. Robinson is credited with being the first disc jockey to play the new music of Rock ‘n Roll in Canada. Along the way, he became associated with some of the giants of that era. Radio was a whole different animal from today when Red broke into the business as a teenager, and started bringing R&B sounds to the Vancouver airwaves. “There was a station in Seattle, called KJR, and they played a lot what we called R&B before it morphed into Rock n’ Roll — artists like Ruth Brown, Clyde McPhatter — and I started playing it.”

See RED’S, Page 2

FOR THE TOWNSMAN

Clive Brown, President of Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 24 Cranbrook, is pictured with some of the winners of the Mt. Baker Secondary School poster and literacy campaign from 2014/15. Back row, left to right: Clive Brown, Katie McGill, Alexia McKinnon. Front row, left to right: Brooke Dreger, Josephine Ruoss, Alexis Shuffler.

Legion kicks off contest T R E VO R C R AW LE Y

It’s never too early to honour Canada’s veterans, but with Remembrance Day fast approaching, the Cranbrook Legion is kicking off it’s annual poster and literacy campaign. The initiative encourages students from elementary,

middle and high school to submit art posters or literary poems and essays with a theme of remembering and honouring Canadian veterans who have served at home and abroad throughout the nation’s history. The contest will be broken down by age group and a local

panel of volunteers with the Cranbrook Legion Branch No. 24 will adjudicate the entries, which have ranged anywhere from 300-500 in the past. The contest is open to schools in Cranbrook, Kimberley and Jaffray, as local winning entries can advance to zone finals, provincial finals

and even national finals in Ottawa. Clive Brown, president of the Cranbrook Legion Branch 24, says the contest is a good way to get kids and youth engaged in the spirit of remembrance.

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