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Making Idlewild Great Again

Canada Post Marking the start of a new park issues lockout notice to union TRE VOR CR AWLEY

Canada Post has issued a lockout notice to mail carriers effective Friday, July 8, 2016.

The notice comes on the heels of negotiations between the crown corporation and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) for a new collective bargaining agreement, which has been in the works since late last year.

The situation has escalated from both sides, with the CUPW voting for a strike mandate, while Canada Post has tabled a contract that the company calls a ‘final offer.’

“The uncertainty caused by the prolonged negotiations and the union’s strike mandate is having a negative and escalating impact on the postal service,” read a Canada Post news release.

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Labour strife in the air, mediation in the offing

City of Kimberley, Union mediation dates set; KSCU, Union mediation fails CAROLYN GRANT

The city of Kimberley and Steelworkers Local I-405 will be meeting with a mediator from the BC Labour Relations Board on July 11 and 12, rather than the 13 as originally announced.

Both sides are hopeful an agreement can be reached through mediation. Trevor Sonnes, who assisted the two in finalizing the last collective agreement between the Steelworkers and the Cty of Kimberley is the mediator appointed by the Labour Board.

Meanwhile, union employees of Kootenay Savings Credit Union are pondering their next move after mediation in late June failed.

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Cranbrook City councillors Tom Shypitka, Norma Blissett and Cranbrook Mayor Lee Pratt look on as Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett speaks at a sod-turning ceremony to kick start the Idlewild dam replacement process.

Fed’s gas tax fund provides $2.8 million for Idlewild rehab TRE VOR CR AWLEY

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ocal politicians came together to make Idlewild great again with an official sod-turning ceremony at the park on Tuesday to mark the upcoming construction of a new dam structure and spillway.

Work will begin once a con-

tractor is in place and is expected to wrap up before the snow flies in the fall. To pay for the project, Cranbrook secured $2.8 million in funding from the Federal Gas Tax fund, while the RDEK and Area C kicked in $500,000.

Though the Gas Tax funding was announced in Febru-

ary, the city is working towards starting construction in August. Once the dam and spillway projects are complete, the focus will shift to redeveloping the whole park.

“We have a short construction period,” said Cranbrook Mayor Lee Pratt. “So hopefully we’ll get going here in the next

two or three weeks and things will go well and we can get what we have to get done this year, then next year, we’ll be able to concentrate on enhancing the surrounding park and making it a nice showcase for the community.”

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Cranbrook’s Gardens of Earthly Delights Take a tour through our botanical paradise on the Cranbrook Garden Club’s 20th annual Open Garden Day Barry Coulter

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ave a wander through a sampling of Cranbrook’s botanical paradise, this Sunday, July 10.

The Cranbrook Garden Club’s 20th annual Open Garden Day will prove to be a tour that’s refreshing to the spirit and the senses.

This year’s edition features seven beautiful and diverse gardens in Cranbrook and surrounding area, many of them in the corners of the interface, and the Garden Club is urging the public to come out and wander through them. The tour runs from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; tickets are $10 and are available at Lotus Books, Trends & Treasures and Top Crop Garden, Farm and Pet. A map is included on the ticket, which will help guide you up New Lake Road way and into the lush environs of Gold Creek.

• Albert and Janice Pelletier’s garden is 15 years old, but an ongoing project, featuring a goldfish pond surrounded by different shrubs, a vegetable garden watched over by different fruit trees, and different beds of irises in full raging bloom. The Pelletier’s live on Stropky Road, just west of Cranbrook.

• Up New Lake Road way, down Harris Road, Judy and Mike Guido’s beautiful yard is centered around a rainbow trout pond — a bucolic setting featuring perennials, shrubs, rock and an expansive lawn.

• Also on Harris Road, Corrina and Rod Barth are working on creating an all-season setting, putting in Carl Forrester grass and other shrubs, large vegetable garden and strawberry patch, and amenities like fire pit and soccer pitch (outdoor rink in the winter).

• Farther along, down Wilson Road to Klahanni Drive, Janet and Bruce Jackett’s five-acre property is also a work in progress, with the current focus on landscaping. Hanging baskets, planters, gardens located around the property and a new greenhouse are part of the attractions. “An ever-changing landscape is the best garden!”

Images from the Guido, Jackett, Eliason and Breus gardens. Photos by Barry Coulter

• At the opposite point of the compass, to 25th Street South off Hidden Valley Road, Lynette and James Eliason’s property is an agricultural delight — a bird-friendly setting with fenced off garden and separate test orchard, many varieties of fruit

trees, fruit-bearing shrubs, grapevines, and all sorts of fantastic experiments going on. And don’t miss the bees — Lance and Bobby Cuthill will be on hand Sunday to demonstrate a glass observation beehive and hold forth on bee theory.

• Back into town we

go, to Daphne Breus’s place on 14th Street South, near Kootenay Orchards School. Daphne’s garden may be small in comparison, but it is lush and wonderfully designed. Her garden’s performance invites you to be the audience.

• Closer into down-

town, to 7th Street South, where Werner and Susan Froese have been working hard for 12 years to transform a clay-heavy, hilly terrain into a veritable park bordering on Joseph Creek, with Nanking cherries prominent among the natural and plant flora, and wild deer

wandering through.

The Cranbrook Garden Club’s 20th annual Open Garden Day includes a Garden Day luncheon at Christ Church Anglican’s Centennial Hall (nine dollars at the door), and a plant and garden craft sale at 224-14th Avenue South

(by the Key City Theatre). More information available upon purchase of ticket.

Let it be noted: This August marks the Cranbrook Garden Club’s 40th anniversary celebration. Watch these pages for more information.

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The Week On The Beat

RCMP report busy week, answer 165 calls FOR THE TOWNSMAN

Cranbrook RCMP responded to 165 calls for service over the past week, June 27 (6 a.m.) to July 4 (6 a.m.), according to a press release from Staff Sergeant Hector Lee. On June 27, at about 9:10 p.m., Cranbrook RCMP were dispatched

to multiple reports of a disturbance/assault between a man and woman at the 300 block of 2nd Street South. The officers attended and discovered an injured woman, who was taken to the East Kootenay Regional Hospital where doctors initially suspected a broken orbital

bone.

The suspect boyfriend was identified and later arrested. It is believed alcohol to be a contributing factor. The suspect man is facing charges of robbery and assault causing bodily harm.

• There were three alcohol-related Immedi-

ate Roadside Prohibitions/Impaired Driving charges issued.

• Five collisions were reported. One collision was the result of a cyclist hitting a parked vehicle; three collisions were out of town,where the dirtbike or ATV rider lost control; one collision happened in town where

the vehicle struck a deer.

• There was one hitand-run incident reported.

• Seven mental health calls were reported no individuals were apprehended in any of the cases.

• There were four assault complaints. Three of these were domestic

in nature, one of which resulted in serious injury (see above).

• 10 Thefts reported.

Two of these were thefts from vehicles (a tailgate and lightbar stolen) and one where the owner interrupted what appeared to be an attempted theft from her vehicle. There was one re-

port of a stolen bike off the back of a pick up.

The stolen bike was turned into the Cranbrook RCMP the next day. There were three reports of thefts from coin-operated laundry machines in an apartment complex. There was one report of a theft of a vehicle. A side-byside ATV was stolen form a rural property in Gold Creek on July 2.

The ATV is a 2015 Viking 700FI. There was one report of theft of bottles and cans that were taken from front porch. There was a report of an attempted theft of copper wire in the industrial area. The owner interrupted the culprit, who fled with nothing.

• One Break and Enter was reported this week past, but proved to be unfounded.

• There were three reports of mischief to property (two to vehicles and one to a park picnic table at Gyro Park) • There were five drug seizures, four involving marijuana and one involving meth.

Labour issues TREVOR CRAWLEY PHOTO

Local officials celebrated the start of the process to replace the dam and spillway at Idlewild Lake as well as the subsequent park redevelopment. Pictured above: David Kim (City of Cranbrook CAO), Ron Popoff (city councillor), Wes Graham (city councillor), Rob Gay (RDEK board chair), Wendy Booth (UBCM Second Vice President & Area F Director), Bill Bennett (Kootenay East MLA), Lee Pratt (Mayor), Tom Shypitka (city councillor), Norma Blissett (city councillor).

Idlewild gets $2.8 million injection CONTINUED from page 1 The existing dam is earthen-filled with a concrete core and the rehabilitation work will include strengthening the structure and increasing the slopes upstream and downstream and replacing the spillway to allow for higher capacity water flow.

In order to do that, the lake will have to be dredged, however, fish stocks, turtles and other creatures will be relocated to other suitable habitats.

“It’s critical for the dam work to be done as far as a safety standpoint with the provincial government,” said Mike Matejka, the project manager. “They have re-

quired us to replace or upgrade the dam or have it decommissioned — those were the options that we had. From a dam safety perspective and an infrastructure perspective, that is mandatory.

“The rest of the work with the parks upgrades and the leisure upgrades are just something that we feel needed to happen because it’s been so long since those have been upgraded.”

The parks and leisure upgrades will be made following a consultation process that has seen 1,000 responses from public surveys and a Facebook Page called ‘Make Idlewild Great Again.’

The park is a unique area because of it’s geographic location — it borders the outside edge of city limits — and includes Cranbrook users and those who live in Gold Creek, which is RDEK jurisdiction.

Rob Gay, the Area C director and RDEK board chair, said that the park is a special case as it is within RDEK jurisdiction, however, the City of Cranbrook is responsible for the lake.

The funding, for both the City of Cranbrook and the RDEK comes from the federal Gas Tax Fund. The fund, which accumulates through taking a percentage every time someone gases up their

vehicle at the fuel pumps, is returned to UBCM and distributed to local governments.

Gay added that the $500,000 will come out of the RDEK’s portion of the Gas Tax grant and will not mean any adjustments to property taxes.

Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett lauded Mayor Pratt and the council for making a difficult decision to draw the lake down and decommission the dam, which he called a public safety issue.

“I’m certainly thankful that this current mayor and council have shown the courage to lower the water, make it safe for people and then go

out and find the money and get it fixed,” Bennett said.

The dam was identified as structurally unsound in a report to city council at the beginning of 2015, and the lake levels have been drawn down to relieve stress on the structure.

Lake levels were drawn down last summer to relieve pressure on the structure, while city officials worked with various provincial and federal ministries to come up with a plan to fix the dam that wouldn’t have an averse impact on the lake’s ecological system, which is important habitat for migratory birds and turtles.

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The USW Locals 1-405 and 9705 representing 110 unionized staff at Kootenay Savings Credit Union at branches in the East and West Kootenay, participated in mediation with provincial mediator Dave Schaub from the BC Labour Relations Board and KSCU on June 20 and 21. Dean Lott, USW Staff Rep and lead negotiator said there was some progress on Day 2 but it still came down to the employer including concessions on pension protection language and zero pay increases in the first two years.

Unionized staff previously voted 94 per cent in favour of strike action.

A union press release said the next steps are being evaluated and could include 72-hour strike notice.

And Canada Post regular service and parcel delivery could be suspended as early as Friday, as the corporation issued 72-hour lockout notice to its unionized workforce on Tuesday.

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Mike Paleck, the president of the CUPW, lamented the move by Canada Post.

“We knew this was their game all along,” Paleck said.

“They are sabotaging the public review of the post office.

They refused to negotiate fairly with us and now they ‘re locking the doors and will try to starve us into submission.”

In a news release, Canada Post says that just because a lockout notice has been issued doesn’t mean that the

service won’t be operating on Friday.

In issuing the notice, Canada Post says the terms and conditions of the current collective agreement will no longer apply starting on Friday.

Under new company-imposed terms and conditions, employees will receive regular pay and some benefits, such as applicable prescription drug coverage. It also allows the company to adjust staffing according to the amount of

work required.

The CUPW, with 50,000 members across Canada, is charging that Canada Post is attempting to impose steep concessions on employees.

“We will not be bullied by a corporation that is supposed to be providing people with public service, that is raking in millions in profits every year, and that is willfully and needlessly waging war upon tens of thousands of workers and their families,” said Palecek.

The two sides have been

locked in negotiations over wage increases and benefits plans. A collective bargaining agreement between Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers (RSMC) expired at the end of 2015, while an agreement with the urban section of the CUPW expired on Jan. 31, 2016.

The last lockout by Canada Post was in 2011, however, the Conservative government at the time passed back to work legislation that has now been ruled unconstitutional.

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Cranbrook Food Action Committee and Wildsight Kimberley/ Cranbrook have teamed up to bring you ‘A Mushroom Workshop’ yet again, ‘everything you need to know about growing your own’.

The first sessions in April sold out, meaning this is the public’s second chance to partake in these informative workshops being offered in Kimberley and Cranbrook.

The first workshop is coming up on Wednesday, July 6, in Cranbrook and second on Friday, July 8, in Kimberley. Both workshops will start at 7 pm and registrations are open at www.wildsight.ca/ mushrooms.

Lija and Monte of Kootenai Fungi will introduce participants to the fascinating world of growing mushrooms. Over the past year, the pair have been growing mushrooms on their urban mushroom farm in Kimberley. With delicious success, Kootenai Fungi has been selling at farmers markets, local stores and restaurants as well as providing mushroom spawn, cultures, grow kits to interested individuals.

Learn to grow your own mushrooms at home.

Topics to be covered during these two hour workshops will include mushroom life cycle, starting cultures, inoculation techniques and various growing methods suitable for home growers. The workshops are comprised of technique demonstrations as well as hands on demos.

All participants will go home ready to start growing

their own mushrooms. Types of mushrooms that we will be growing include oyster, reishi, garden giants and shaggy manes.

Why grow your own mushrooms? They are fat-free, low in calories, and filled with vitamins, antioxidants, and other nutrients. Mushrooms contain compounds that have been linked to lowering the risk of a

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Please visit www.wildsight. ca/mushrooms, or call 250427-9325 ext. 221 to register.

Email cranbrookfood@gmail. com for more info and visit www.facebook.com/kootenaifungi to learn more about Kootenai Fungi.

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Power in the ducks

Duck Race sells out raising $22,100 for Food Bank C A RO LYN GR ANT

Thousands of yellow plastic ducks have had their annual dunk in Mark Creek, been collected and put away until next year.

The Royal LePage East Kootenay Realty Kimberley Food Bank Duck Race was another sell-out success this year, with every one of the 5,000 tickets sold, raising $22,100.

Winner of the first prize of $2500 cash was Wayne Geiger of Fairmont.

Second prize, two nights accommodation in a 3-bedroom condo, compliments of Kimberley Lodging Company; a feast for four from the Old Bauernhaus, and four round of golf with two carts, courtesy of Trickle Creek Golf Resort, was won by Brenda Roberts of Kimberley. Third prize ($250 cash from Meadowbrook Greenhouse) went to Judi Hogg of Kimberley and fourth prize (two rounds of golf from Bootleg Gap and two rounds plus a cart from Kimberley Golf Course) went to Elaine Slavinski of Kimberley.

As always, the event could not have been pulled off without the work of the tremendous Food Bank volunteers, and generous local businesses, including Mark Creek Market and Kimberley Meats and Sausage, who help with the barbecue.

“The come through for us every year,” said Marilyn Jolie.

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The Southeast Kootenay school district board of education has sent a letter in support of a campaign that is pressuring the provincial government to be more open when making decisions on post-secondary education funding.

The ‘Open the Door’ campaign is being organized by the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of B.C. The board said it understands the strain of chronic underfunding and the impact that it has on students.

“We recognize that whether in trades or academia, outcomes for students — and our economy — greatly improve with post secondary education,” reads the letter. “High tuition fees, and chronic underfunding by government of B.C.’s public schools, colleges, universities and institutes are making it difficult for many young people in BC to achieve their potential and fully contribute to their communities — and local economies —despite receiving a Certificate of Graduation (Dogwood Diploma).”

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South China Sea Showdown?

N ext Wednesday (12 July) the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea will issue its ruling on China’s claim to practically all of the South China Sea. And already the main military contenders are moving more forces into the region.

China’s Maritime Safety Administration announced that Chinese naval and air forces will carry out seven days of exercises in an area extending from Hainan to the Paracel Islands off the Vietnamese coast. The exercises will end on 11 July, just one day before the tribunal’s ruling is released, so they will still be around if things get more exciting after that.

They might well get more exciting, because the US Navy’s Task Force 70, including the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, has now moved into the South China Sea. Its task, according to its commander, Rear-Admiral John D. Anderson, is “to maintain the seas open for all to use.”

The Chinese Defence Ministry’s spokesman, Col. Wi Qian, warned last Thursday that this is “an act of militarisation in the South China Sea and it endangers regional peace and stability. But I’d like to say that the US side is making the wrong calculation. The Chinese armed forces never give in to outside forces.” And on Friday President Xi Jinping declared that China will never compromise on sovereignty and is “not afraid of trouble.”

So the stage may be set for a serious US-Chinese military confrontation if the Hague tribunal rules against China’s claim next week as expected. The US military fear that China may respond by declaring an Air Defence Identification Zone over the whole of the South China Sea, like the ADIZ it declared in the East China Sea in

2013 in its quarrel with Japan over disputed islands there.

Both the US and Japan refused to recognise that ADIZ and sent their own military aircraft to fly through it. The US Navy would unquestionably respond in the same way to a Chinese-declared ADIZ in the South China Sea — and last February China installed two batteries of anti-aircraft missiles with a range of 200 km. on Woody Island in the Paracels.

In a worst-case analysis, therefore, we could be only Gwynne a week away from a major Dyer military clash between the United States and China in the South China Sea. But it really shouldn’t go that far, because the Hague tribunal’s ruling will have no practical effect.

China’s “nine-dash line” claim to almost 90 percent of the South China Sea looks preposterous on a map — it extends more than a thousand km. from the southern-most point of China while coming within less than a hundred km. of the Filipino, Malaysian and Vietnamese coasts —but it is taken very seriously in China.

The historical justifications for Beijing’s claim are flimsy, but beginning with the seizure by force of the Paracel Islands from Vietnam in 1974, China has extended its control to most of tiny islands and reefs in the entire area.

In the past three years it has expanded seven of these tiny footholds with concrete and landfill, building airstrips, port facilities and other potential military assets on them. In February, for the first time, it put actual weapons on them.

Whether or not this was directly in response to the case brought against it in The Hague by the Philippines in 2013, it certainly had the effect of making a military confrontation more likely.

But China stated in advance that it

would not recognise any ruling on the validity of its claim by the UN-backed Hague tribunal, which has no way to enforce its decision. So it should not feel obliged to resort to military force to defend its claim, any more than the US should feel any need to use force to challenge it. In theory.

Behind the sometimes belligerent thetoric from Beijing, there has been a long-standing policy that China should avoid military confrontations with other great powers until it has grown strong enough economically to stand a good chance of winning. It’s not there yet, so it should still be gun-shy. But there may now be another consideration at work.

The social contract that keeps the Chinese Communist Party in power is simple: so long as the Party delivers steadily rising living standards, the population will accept its dictatorial rule. For almost thirty years it has kept its side of the bargain, with economic growth rates of between 8 and 10 percent per year.

But even the Party admits that the growth rate is now down to 6 percent, and hardly anybody else believes it is even four percent. Some observers think the economy may not be growing at all this year. If that is the case, then the regime is drifting into dangerous waters, and it will need a foreign distraction to divert public attention from its failure.

An exciting but carefully contained confrontation over the South China Sea with the United States and its Southeast Asian allies could be the solution, igniting nationalist passions in China and generating support for the regime, but the tricky bit is keeping it “carefully contained”. Once you start down that road, you cannot be sure where it will take you.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist based in London

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UPCOMING Every Saturday from June until the end of August, Home Hardware Cranbrook will be lending out the use of our custom made Lemonade Stand to sell lemonade at our store from 11am3pm. Home Hardware will supply the Lemonade and Cups, and Culligan Cranbrook will supply the Ice and Water. Your group sells a cup of lemonade for $1.00 and you keep the proceeds as a fundraiser. Saturday spots are filling up quick so if your group is interested, please call Margaret at the store 250-426-6288 to reserve your date.

The Kimberley Farmers’ Market on Howard Street from 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm every Thursday rain or shine from June 23 - September 8.

Moyie Highhouse Museum, open every Sunday through July and August, 1 to 3 p.m. Watch for signage. Hwy 3/95.

Military Ames will hold a flea market during JulyFest to raise funds for the new Veterans’ Memorial park. Friday, July 15 7 p.m., Saturday, July 16, 8 a.m. Sunday, July 17, 1 p.m. Kimberley Kootenay Savings Credit Union parking lot.

Kimberley Food Bank Garage Sale is scheduled for August 20th at the Kimberley Curling Club. Your items can be delivered, starting August 2nd from 4:00 – 6:00 pm, at the Curling Rink everyday until the sale.

NEXT UP IN THE GALLERY PURCELL MOUNTAIN PAINTERS & HEADWATER ART SOCIETY IN THE GALLERY FROM JULY 5TH TO JULY 30TH Purcell Mountain Painters of Invermere and Headwater Art Society of Canal Flats are two groups of artists which, on a regular basis, meet; paint; teach; and sponsor workshops by inviting renowned artists for their members and interested persons.

The groups present their works of art to local collectors; tourists; and visitors of the valley at various shows throughout the year.

The groups’ goals are to increase memberships; to encourage arts and culture in their area of the Columbia Valley and reaching beyond the borders of British Columbia; and to have fun doing so.

ART AT CHATEAU KIMBERLEY

The Chateau Kimberley Art Gallery is featuring the art of Karen Arrowsmith, Mary Ann Bidder, Joseph Cross, John de Jong, Lynne Grillmair, Ann Holtby Jones, Teresa Knight, Jeanie Miller, Jeanette Oostlander, Jean Pederson, Darlene Purnell and Marianne Rennick.

The Gallery at 78 Howard St. is open 9-7 daily until October 15th, 2016.

SUMMER 2016 CREATIVE KIDS ART CLASSES

Centre 64, Kimberley, July 5 through August 12.

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Come to the Friends of the Library’s “Summer Home Show and Shopping Fest” at Western Financial Place. There will be commercial businesses, arts, crafts, local vendors, small and home businesses plus more. Admission and parking are FREE.

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SUMMER SUITCASE PROJECT KEY CITY THEATRE A Theatre Camp for Ages 12 - 16 July 11-15 9 am to 1 pm $99 for 20 hours of instruction Students will create a piece of “devised” theatre based on items drawn randomly from a suitcase. They will create their own script and direction and will present a completed work for family and friends on the final day. Registration deadline Friday July 8 at 4:00 pm. sioban@keycitytheatre.com

SAT. JULY 9 MEDIEVAL FEAST

Medieval Feast $50. includes dinner and entertainment. At the Kimberley Elks Club.

SAT. JULY 9, SUN. JULY 10 PIANO CONCERT

Arne Sahlen’s Count-down Concert:

United Churches, Kimberley on Sat. July 9, 7pm and Cranbrook on Sun. July 10, 7 pm; by donation. Arne and area performers will follow on last weekend’s rousing events (linking Chopin with “Yellow Polka Dot Bikini”, for instance) presenting varied music with his trademark lively commentary.

The events herald PianoFocus 2017 music summer-school in Kimberley BC next July.

For details: arnesahlen@hotmail.com or 250-427-2159, cell/ text 250-540-4242.

GEOLOGY IN THE PARK SUNDAY, JULY 10

9 a.m. with Ralph Rudser (250-427-1590).

Join a professional geologist for this informative hike. Meet at Matthew Creek turnoff on St Mary’s Lake Rd at 9 am for car pooling.

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SUNDAY, JULY 10 OPEN GARDEN DAY TOUR

Enjoy a self-guided tour of 7 beautifully diverse gardens and discover blooms & edibles as well as local artisans from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday July 10th as the Cranbrook

RUN TIL END OF APRIL - STOP FOR SUMMER - THEN RESTART SEPT.6TH Cantabelles, an all-female singing group, Garden Club presents meets body.

Mondays 7-9pm. Join us and their 20th Annual Open learn how to sing with 2, 3 and 4part Garden Day. Tickets harmonies. Contact: Sue Trombley, 250JULY 25 - 29 426-0808 or suetrombley53@gmail.com are $10.00 available

after June 24th at Lotus Books, Trends & Treasures, & Top Crop Garden, Farm & Pet. Take a tour break from noon to 1:30 p.m. At Christ Church Anglican (lower level) where you can enjoy a homemade lunch provided by the Church ladies for $9.00 at the door. Don’t forget to drop in at our Garden Club’s Plant & Craft Sale at 224- 14th Avenue N. for great bargains from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

SUNDAY, JULY 10 DINNER AND DANCE COLOMBO LODGE

In support of local refugee families. Entertainment by Dawson Rutledge, and Ed King with Bud Abbott and Audrey Jane. Dark Fire Cloud and the Lightning Band play the dance. Tickets $45 at Baker Street PharmaSave or Lotus Books.

JULY 14, 28, AUG. 11 KIMBERLEY COMMUNITY BAND Kimberley Community Band concerts. Platzl bandstand. 7:30 p.m.

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A Theatre Camp for Ages 6 - 12, July 25 to 29 9 am to 1 pm. $99 for 20 hours of instruction.

Theatre games, voice work and lots of fun for all budding young thespians! Come and join us while we create our own show. A final performance will be held on the last day.

Registration deadline Friday July 22 at 4:00 pm. sioban@keycitytheatre.com

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KIMBERLEY KALEIDOSCOPE ARTS & CULTURE FESTIVAL AUGUST 6-13, 2016

8-day arts & culture festival: live music, art, spoken word, photography, painting, puppet theatre, performances & workshops at affordable prices.

Cranbrook Phoenix Toastmasters meet every Thursday, noon -1:00 Heritage Inn. Toastmasters teaches communication & leadership skills. Roberta 250-489-0174. 1911.toastmastersclubs.org.

Royal Canadian Legion Branch 24; Friday Meat Draw: 4:30-6:30, Saturday Meat Draw: 3:30-5:30.

Canadian Cancer Society- if you have spare time and would like to volunteer, interested applicants can call 250-426-8916, drop by our office at #19-9th Avenue S, Cranbrook or go to www. cancervolunteer.ca and register as a volunteer.

Mark Creek Lions meet 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at the Kimbrook.

Supper 6:15-6:45, meeting 7:00-8:00pm. Contact Larry 250-4275612 or Bev 250-427-7722. New members welcome – men & ladies!

The Cellar Thrift Store Open Mon. to Sat., noon to 4:30 p.m. Our revenues support local programs and outreach programs of Cranbrook United Church. Baker Lane Entry at 2 – 12th Ave. S. Cranbrook, B. C. Donations of new or gently used items welcome.

The Chateau Kimberley Art Gallery is featuring the art of Karen Arrowsmith, Mary Ann Bidder, Joseph Cross, John de Jong, Lynne Grillmair, Ann Holtby Jones, Teresa Knight, Jeanie Miller, Jeanette Oostlander, Jean Pederson, Darlene Purnell and Marianne Rennick.

The Gallery at 78 Howard St. is open 9-7 daily until October 15th, 2016.

BINGO at the Kimberley Elks – Mondays, 6:30 start. All welcome.

The Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation invites anyone expecting bone and joint surgery to make contact with local volunteers for peer support. 1-800-461-3639 ext 4, and ask for Lauralee.

Al-Anon Family Group meets weekly. Monday at 7-8 pm at Marysville Community Church. (730 302 st.) The only requirement for membership is that there may be a problem of alcoholism in a relative or friend. For further information call Susan 250-427-0212 or email afglearning2live@gmail.com Thursdays from 5:00 to 6:00 pm; Focus Meat Draw at the Elks Club, Kimberley. Proceeds to Emergency Funds and non-profit organizations.

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) non profit weight loss support group meets EVERY Thursday at 5:00 pm, at Sr Citizen’s Centre, (downstairs) 125 17th Ave S, Cranbrook. Drop in, have fun while losing weight gradually. This Chapter has won an annual B.C. Provincial Award for “Best Avg Weight Loss Per Member”. Info: Marie 250 417 2642 Bibles For Missions Thrift Store, 824 Kootenay St. N., Cranbrook serving our community to benefit others - at home and abroad. We turn your donations into helping dollars! Open Tues-Sat 10am-5pm.

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The Friends of the Kimberley Public Library used book store in Marysville is open Wed to Sat; 10:30 to 3:30 & Sunday 1:00 to 4:00.

Noon every Wednesday, downtown United Church & Centre for Peace, the bells will call you to a time of calm. This is NOT church, rather it is a time to gather in a circle in a welcoming and harmonious space to practice the way of Taize. Wouldn’t you cherish a time to stop? to gather when the bells ring? to join with others in silence, in prayer, in meditative song?

Masonic Lodges of B.C. and Yukon will supply transportation to cancer patients who have arrived at Kelowna or Vancouver. This free service will be at the destination point. Example: from airport to clinic and clinic to airport on return, also around the destination city.

Info may be received from your doctor, Canadian Cancer Society, or by phoning Ron at 250-426-8159.

Quilters meet in Kimberley on the 2nd Monday at Centennial Hall at 7:00 PM and the 4th Monday for sewing sessions in the United Church Hall at 10 Boundary Street.

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The group of 12 includes two medallists from the London 2012 Paralympic Games, five cyclists with Paralympic Games experience and four world champion cyclists.

“I am delighted with our para-cycling team selections for the Paralympic Games in Rio this summer,” said Jacques Landry, high performance director and head coach for Cycling Canada.

“Our athletes were selected based on performances at international competitions and on their potential to perform in the Paralympic arena based on showings at selected races. Our team is comprised of athletes with Paralympic experience and also athletes we have recently identified who could surprise many.”

Daniel Chalifour of SteThérèse, Que., notches a third career Games nomination while Marie-Ève Croteau of Quebec City, Shelley Gautier of Toronto, Ont., Marie-Claude Molnar of Lemoyne, Que., and Robbi Weldon of Thunder Bay, Ont., all competed at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Weldon won

gold in the road race (with then pilot Lyne Besette) while Molnar won bronze in the time trial.

National team rookie and world champion Tristen Chernove of Cranbrook, B.C. has taken the para-cycling world by storm this year with double gold at the world track championships in March and two victories at the World Cup road event in Belgium in May. The four world champions on the team are Chernove, Weldon, Gautier and Croteau.

Para-cycling is one of 22 summer sports on the Paralympic Games schedule and features events for athletes with disabilities including visual impairments, arm and leg amputations or cerebral palsy. The Paralympic Games are set for September 7-18, 2016 with the para-cycling track events September 8 to 11 and the road events September 14 to 17.

“Canada is fielding a large and accomplished team in para-cycling and we have a solid core of veterans to lead the way, along with talented newcomers,” said Canada’s Chef de Mission Chantal Petitclerc. ”The team’s training and experience should prove beneficial at the Paralympic Games.”

“On behalf of all Canadians, congratulations to our cycling athletes named today to wear the Maple Leaf this summer at the

Rio 2016 Paralympic Games,’’ said the Honourable Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities. ‘’Cycling Canada has done a phenomenal job of preparing our athletes to compete and now it’s their time to shine in Rio. All of Canada is behind you.”

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Freeland said she welcomed EU Commission President JeanClaude Juncker’s warning to European parliaments that the “credibility of Europe’s trade policy is at stake,” so it must vote to deliver the deal.

“I think that is a message to European governments,” she said.

“It’s important for Europe to show it can get things done, and CETA is a great opportunity to do that.”

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You might be more anchored than you realize when dealing with an emotional situation that involves a partner who sometimes can be touchy or difficult.

Say the right words, and you might see a new and improved version of this person emerge.

Tonight: Emphasize the positive.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You will say what you think, and mean it. Others could be taken aback by your directness about a situation that surrounds work or your health. Verbalize more of what you need financially and emotionally. A partner might reluctantly respond. Tonight:

Return calls.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Be aware of the costs of proceeding as you would like to.

You will find other ways to influence others. Listen to news in a nonreactive way. You have certain expectations, which you will make known. Try to be open in a discussion. Tonight: Take a hard look at your budget.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Be more forthright in how you deal with a loved one who could be making an effort to please you. You might note a strong, combative attitude from a family member. Do not make a big deal out of it; instead, see if a little TLC will make a difference.

Tonight: You make the call.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Be aware of what isn’t being said. A family member could share a secret that sheds some light on a heated situation.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You might opt to be more proactive about a long-term goal.

Detach a bit, and be willing to make an effort to get an important person to understand your perspective. Take news with a grain of salt. You will be able to sort fact from fiction. Tonight: Listen to great music.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You might be taken aback by everything that is occurring. Stay steady, and try not to push so hard to have a key person agree with you; listen to his or her vision and ideas, too. A new beginning is likely if you can come to terms with the present situation. Tonight: Try out a new spot.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Close relating is instrumental in coming to an agreement.

You might be doubtful about your ability to draw the type of understanding you desire and need. It is important to be realistic and to let go of any insecurities. Tonight: Share news with a favorite person.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Follow through on what counts to you as well as to others, and you are likely to find some common ground. Don’t let someone you look up to agitate you. Use this person’s energy to tighten up a project. You will like the results far more. Tonight: Say “yes” to an invitation.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You might be focused on achievement and on getting the job done. Keep reaching out to someone who could be playing devil’s advocate. Your understanding of this person’s role might be more significant than you realize. Tonight: Know when to call it a night.

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In the beginning, it was a matter of seeing similarities between my father and nephew, and I was drawn to that. Now, I realize that I am in love with Steven. I also have been sending money regularly to Steven because he’s had some legal problems, and I am hoping it will help him straighten out his life. My husband has no idea this has been going on.

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I don’t want to give up what I have with Steven, but if I tell my husband, he’ll divorce me, and I don’t want that, either. Please, please help. -- Aunt in Agony Dear Aunt: Unless you truly want to get out of this mess, no counseling is going to help.

You MUST break it off with Steven NOW. A sexual relationship between aunt and nephew is considered incest. Not only that, if you started this mess when he was only 17, you may be guilty of statutory rape as well. You are risking your marriage and could estrange the entire family. Steven is probably the same age as your sons, and their resentment will be enormous. There is the additional unpleasant possibility that Steven is stringing you along because you are providing him with money.

We know having a fling with a 27-year-old must make you feel young. Nonetheless, you are being unfair to your family, and also to Steven. You are preventing him from finding someone more appropriate and available. So far, you have been selfish and immature, but you need to find the strength to tell him it’s over before your world comes crashing down around your ears.

Dear Annie: My husband will be retiring soon, and his staff recently threw a party for him. As a gift, they presented him with an enormous piece of artwork meant to be displayed outside. Neither of us likes it. It is definitely not our taste.

The problem is that my husband insists on displaying the piece, because he feels guilty about the cost and doesn’t want to offend his staff. He accepted the gift graciously and has thanked everyone for it. Is he obligated to use it? We have had several intense arguments about this. -- Desperate in Pennsylvania Dear Desperate: No one is obligated to use a gift. The recipient can do whatever he likes with it, as long as he properly thanks the givers. Perhaps when your husband actually retires and no longer sees his staff on a regular basis, he will feel more comfortable about donating the piece to a museum or a charity. Until then, move the artwork into the backyard, and allow him to deal with it as he chooses.

Dear Annie: You recently printed a letter from Mr. Jack Custer, who thoughtfully alerted you to the error of another reader who had written the phrase “caveat lector, sapeat lector.” Mr. Custer’s correction, “sapiat lector,” though erudite, was only partially correct. He erred in stating that “sapio” is a third conjugation verb. It is, in fact, a third conjugation “-io” stem verb.

While we Latin students were thrilled to see someone who cared about Latin grammar, we were distressed that he would shortchange the Latin language so. Please excuse our picayune pedantry. Thank you, and we love your column. -- Several Vermont High School Latin Students Dear Students: You have no idea what a kick we get out of these arcane intellectual arguments. Our Latin expertise begins and ends with “E Pluribus Unum.” We’ll let you know if any other scholars weigh in.

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LONDON — The race to succeed Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron intensified Tuesday as Britain grappled with growing signs of economic strain resulting from the country’s vote to leave the European Union.

With the British currency plunging to its lowest point in three decades, Home Secretary Theresa May scored a substantial victory in the first round of voting to determine who will follow Cameron as party leader and prime minister.

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Obama makes his first campaign appearance with Clinton during a wave of popularity unlike anything he’s experienced since his first term.

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