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DAVID HUMPHREY/DAILY TOWNSMAN, 1972
A provincial notice of referendum, August, 1972.
Daylight Savings Time: In like a Lion
COURTESY ELLEN BAILEY
On Saturday March 5, voice and piano students of member teachers of the East Kootenay Music Teachers’ Association presented “Fur, Feathers and Friends,” an entertaining recital of animal songs. Students brought donations of pet food and money for the SPCA which were received by SPCA Manager Brenna Baker, on the left of the middle row above. Thanks to all for their contributions!
Cranbrook dentist team returns from Guatemala TRE VOR CR AWLEY
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local team of oral health professionals endured 12-hour days in Guatemalan heat and improvised on their feet to see patients who don’t have the luxury of getting regular dental checkups. Dr. Dave Burwash, along with eight other local volunteers from his dental clinic and the Cranbrook/Kimberley area, recently returned from a two-week trip to the South
American country, where they saw just over 500 patients in a couple different rural communities. It was a stark juxtaposition of the gap between health care delivery services in First and Third World countries. Making a dental appointment and getting a cleaning is considered routine in Canada, but in rural Guatemala, that isn’t the case. From bringing their own equipment to improvising patient workstations, the group
carried out 800-1,000 tooth extractions and 100 dental cleanings spaced throughout a week of stops in different communities. Every morning began with a chant and group hug before getting busy with patients who, in some cases, walked for a day to get dental work done. A mid-morning dance-off helped ease tensions, while evening beefs and bouquet—a group talk on what was good and what was bad about the
day—helped with group dialogue. Flying out of Calgary, the team flew into Guatemala City—the national capital— and drove for four hours up to Chisec, their first community of 5,000. The crew included the nine local volunteers and five translators who had to juggle translating English to Spanish and Spanish to Q’eqchi’—a local Mayan language.
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BARRY COULTER
or those of you who like to stay up late to witness the clock springing forward, this weekend is for you. That’s right — as of 2 a.m., Sunday, March 13, Daylight Savings Time begins and the days will seem to last forever (so remember to turn your clocks ahead). That’s what we like in the East Kootenay. That’s what we’ve always liked — since 1952, anyway, when 53.6 per cent of British Columbians voted in favour of adopting Daylight Savings Time (Creston, our time-standing-still neighbour to the west, ignored the results of this plebescite). By the way, Canada’s six time zones, and the East Kootenay’s placement in the Mountain Zone, are based on proposals by Scottish Canadian railway engineer Sir Sandford Fleming, who helped pioneer the world’s time zone system. British Columbia’s clocks first sprang forward on April 14, 1918, with the national Daylight Savings Time Act. The act was allowed to lapse after World War I, re-legislated for World War II, then left up to the provinces after the war — hence the Plebescite of ‘52, ignored by Creston.
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