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Vol. 64, Issue 219
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Cranbrook veteran’s grave finally complete
ARNE PETRYSHEN
A veteran who died in 1943 while on leave from the army will finally have the correct dates on his headstone. Up until now the headstone of Aircraftman 1st Class Gerald Ward Bradford had read that he had died in 1945, however he had died in 1943. On Tuesday morning, Larry Miller and Bob Muir, from the Legion Veterans Cemetery committee, dug out the old headstone and laid down the new one in its place. Miller said it was a member of Bradford’s family that pointed out the error. “It was brought to our attention that the date was wrong on the headstone,” said Miller. Miller said he couldn’t initially recall which year Bradford had died, but found an article in the Townsman archive covering the funeral from 1943. The article states that Bradford was 21 when he was killed in a motorcycle accident near Gal-
loway, while returning to his RCAF base at Macleod. Bradford was accorded a military funeral, with firing party and sounding of “Last Post.” There was a military escort of 16 men from the Second Battalion Rocky Mountain Rangers at the funeral conducted by Rev. Canon F. V. Harrison. Miller said he wasn’t sure how the error of dates occurred. “I don’t know how they got the wrong information, it’s so many years ago now,” he said. Bradford’s headstone qualified for the the Last Post Fund, which covers the gravestones of deceased veterans. Once an application goes in to the Last Post Fund it can take several months before the stone arrives. In this case, Miller said it took four months. It arrived on Monday, so on Tuesday Miller and Muir went out to replace the old headstone with the new one.
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Larry Miller and Bob Muir, from the Legion Veterans Cemetery committee, lay a new headstone of Gerald Ward Bradford, who died in 1943. The old headstone stated that date, erroneously, as 1945.
Cranbrook, Kimberley join sales forces A collaborative development initiative to attract industrial revenue is underway
CAROLYN GRANT AND ARNE PETRYSHEN
From the moment Don McCormick began campaigning for mayor in 2014, one of the things he spoke most about was regional economic development. Which is why he is very
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keen to make a success of a new venture, the Cranbrook Kimberley Development Initiative. An initial meeting has been held with local business people and McCormick says he was pleased with the buy in on the idea.
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“We have to make this a success,” he said. “Cranbrook has the same problems we do with industrial taxes. There aren’t much of them. Our millrates are some of the highest in the region. We have to find new sources of industrial revenue.”
McCormick says an advisory committee has been formed and businesses got together to talk strategy. He says the Columbia Basin Trust is also interested in the potential of the idea but said that the business community had to be involved.
“So we morphed the direction a little to get buy in. We want to create a fund to promote the Cranbrook Kimberley business corridor, to market why this is a good place to do business. “There are cost advantages for set up and operations.
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We are far cheaper than urban areas like Vancouver. “We have a stable labour force who don’t want to go anywhere else. “You can combine lifestyle with business.”
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Jason Wheeldon
Personal Real Estate Corporation
250-426-8211
East Kootenay Realty