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Loren gives back to life
TREVOR CRAWLEY
Tri-Kon Precast Concrete Products got the chance to test out their newest toy on Tuesday at their service yard. The company, which manufactures precast concrete products, made first use of their new Shuttlelift mobile gantry by testing it out on a Caterpillar bulldozer that weighed 80,000 pounds, or 36 metric tones. The crane handled it like nothing, lifting the dozer off a semi-truck bed, and down onto the ground. The gantry also has a wheelbase, allowing it to be controlled and piloted remotely.
Riza Loren Roxas Butalid Foundation will benefit students in Cranbrook, Philippines BARRY COULTER
Hitchhikers steal car when driver stops at Tim’s FOR THE TOWNSMAN
Drugs, Firearms and Stolen Vehicles were on the radar for Cranbrook RCMP Monday morning. Cranbrook RCMP reported that a vehicle was stolen from the Tim Horton’s in Creston on Sunday morning. The owner of the truck had
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picked up two female hitchhikers from the Lower Mainland and was on his way to Newfoundland when he stopped at Timmie’s. As he went inside the women drove away in his truck. On Monday morning the Cranbrook RCMP Police Dog Service team located the sto-
len truck, along with a second suspected stolen vehicle near Moyie Lake on Hwy 3/95. Two women and a man were immediately arrested. Two vehicles were seized and searched. The 29-year-old man from the Lower Mainland had homemade explosives and a
loaded prohibited firearm within reach of the driver. The two women, aged 19 and 24 and also from the Lower Mainland, were in possession of a substantial amount of money and what is suspected to be crystal meth and marijuana. The two women also have
March 10th, 2016 to Holly and Ed Jones of Cranbrook, a daughter March 13th, 2016 to Toni-Marie Stambulic and Cameon Lister of Cranbrook, a daughter March 20th, 2016 to Becky McKay and Mike Kostynuk of Cranbrook, a daughter March 24th, 2016 to Nicole Millner and Philip Hall of Kimberley, a daughter March 24th, 2016 to Shawna and Jon Ramsay of Cranbrook, a daughter March 31st, 2016 to Charlie Wilkinson of Cranbrook, a daughter
outstanding warrants from the Lower Mainland for Careless Use of a Firearm, Possess Firearm without license and Possession of Stolen Property. All three individuals were to make appearances before the courts Tuesday.
Fourteen years after her untimely death, Riza Loren Roxas Butalid lives on, in a new foundation dedicated in her name to helping people in both Cranbrook and the Philippines. The Riza Loren Roxas Butalid Foundation was actually started by her friends, who started to raise money in her memory after she was hit by a car, at age 14, in front of her school in the United Arab Emirates, where her family was working at the time. The Butalid family, who have lived in Cranbrook since 2008 and become active members of the community, and grown and evolved the foundation so that it can now offer bursaries at the College of the Rockies and at Mount Baker Secondary School.
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