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Curling great lends support to Grand Slam Kevin Martin, Sportsnet officials, in Cranbrook this week to talk up major curling event
T R E VO R C R AWL EY
Legendary curler Kevin Martin will be in Cranbrook this week to
give a high-profile presence to the official announcement by the Cranbrook Curling Club
unveiling the Grand Slam of Curling Tour Challenge in November. News of the event
was broken by the Daily Townsman a few weeks ago when Sportsnet published their calen-
dar of upcoming Grand Slam events, which included a stop in Cranbrook for the Tour Chal-
lenge. Todd Pellerin, one of the organizers of the committee that helped land the Sportsnet event in Cranbrook, is looking forward to sharing details with the community at a Chamber of Commerce meeting on Tuesday. “We’re just tickled pink that Sportsnet is showing a very high level of interest in making sure that the Cranbrook event becomes the success we know it can be,” Pellerin said. “They’re doing everything within their power to make that happen.” Kevin Martin — considered one of the greatest curlers of all time — recently retired a year
KEVIN MARTIN
ago but was instrumental in the creation of the Grand Slam of Curling circuit back in 2001.
See MARTIN, Page 3
Squealing tires, burning rubber, paying fines FOR THE TOWNSMAN
BARRY COULTER PHOTO
Four Cranbrook curlers are off to represent the Kootenay Zone in the Curl BC Masters Provincial Championships (60-plus), set for next week in Abbotsford. Left to right: Joan Fiedler (Skip), Joy Walker (Third), Chris Knight (Second) and Ruth Persson (Lead) will be among the eight rinks from eight B.C. zones vying for top honours. The seven game round robin (Wednesday, March 9, through Friday, March 11) will be followed by the playoff round on the weekend. Team Kootenay will be taking its competition one shot at a time on the way to the finals. Good luck, Ladies. And the men’s side will also be represented, with Gerry Kent and Peter Sweetman of Cranbrook and Laddie Pavlis and Ralph Will of Creston going for their third straight Masters title. See more on the men later this week in the Townsman.
On Saturday, Feb. 27, a driver got plenty of police attention after squealing his tires at an intersection in Kimberley. Once stopped the officer served the driver with a driving prohibition, a violation ticket and his vehicle was impounded. Events unfolded as police were turning onto Wallinger Avenue near the traffic light and observed a truck in a cloud a smoke with squealing tires. The driver was making a right turn and left a trail of black rubber on the roadway. Police activated their emergency equipment as the truck headed east on Highway 95A towards Meadowbrook. The truck turned
onto the snow covered Houle Forest Service Road, likely in an attempt to evade police. The driver did eventually stop and told police he didn’t think they would follow him on the rutted rural road. Police detected an odor of alcohol and after a breath sample the driver was given a 24 hour driving prohibition. He was also given a violation ticket for Driving without Reasonable Consideration and his truck has also been impounded for seven days. “We often hear about poor driving behavior after the fact, but this time officers were right there, witnessed the offence and were able to deal with it,” said Cpl. Chris Newel of the Kimberley RCMP.