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Isaac okay after night in the woods
Two-year-old goes missing from Premier Lake campground, found safe and sound next morning
C A RO LYN GR AN T far away as Castlegar Two-year-old Isaac and Nelson were still arLeuenberger is a savvy riving at Premier Lake little guy, well versed in when the boy was the outdoors, says Kim- found. berley Search and Res“I wasn’t actually cue Search Manager there when he was Wendy Heatherington, found,” Reid said. and that stood him in “Wendy and myself good stead this past Sat- were out all night and urday night. had come back down to Isaac went missing get some sleep, so we around 7 p.m., (April weren’t there. You al30) at Premier Lake Pro- ways hate to leave a vincial Campground search for that reason, while walking with his but we are just so reMom and siblings. lieved and happy.” Family and others Reid says Isaac was initially searched the found by one of the volarea and then called po- unteers searching for lice who activated the family. Search and Rescue. “It’s incredible. As He was found about you can imagine there is midday Sunday by one a great sense of urgency of the volunteer search- when you are searching ers, bringing a huge sigh for such a little guy. We of relief to family, were all extremely friends and Search and stressed about finding Rescue teams from him.” around the Kootenays. “It’s an incredible Cpl. Chris Newel of feeling,” agreed Heaththe Kimberley RCMP erington. “We are so told media that other happy and relieved. than a few scratches, Thank goodness. It realthe boy was in good ly hit home with the condition. search teams. So many “We’re pretty gosh people were so worried. darn happy,” said KSAR It was hard.” member Peter Reid. She says that with There was a huge any search there is an SAR response as teams urgency rating for from Kimberley, Cran- searches. brook, Invermere, Fernie, Elkford and teams as See SEARCHERS, Page 3
Two-year-old Isaac Leuenberger safe in the arms of his parents Matt and Shelly.
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Baker musicians hit the heights at major festival BARRY COULTER
They may have been the smallest school represented at the province’s biggest music festival, but the musicians of Mount Baker Secondary School still stood out from the pack. And what a pack it was. The musical troupe of 71 players and five teachers got
back to Cranbrook early Monday morning from the Cantando Festival in Whistler, a four-day event featuring 45 concert bands, 30 concert choirs, 25 jazz bands, and the best professional music ajudicators on the continent — more than 4,000 musicians all told. Cantando Festivals, held
in Edmonton, Sun Peaks, B.C. and Whistler (the biggest one) are non-competitive festivals designed for North American school wind ensembles, concert bands, jazz bands, and choirs utilizing some basic tenets necessary to promote quality music education. Evan Bueckert, Music In-
structor at Mt. Baker, said the musicians dove into this milieu ready to perform at the highest levels. “Every group had to put on a half-hour warm-up — a huge show in front of a full house,” Bueckert told the Townsman. “All the ensembles are required to sit and listen to each other. We all
had to be an audience when we weren’t playing, and that was fun because we all had a full house to play to. Every group — after they performed a full half-hour set — got taken to a separate facility where one of the panel of five judges would meet us, and we’d get an hour- to an hour-and-a-half-
long clinic and workshop with this amazing person, who would take us apart and show all us the cool things we did and all the things we could do better. They gave us our mark at the end of the festival which was [Sunday] morning.
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