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search warrants in Cranbrook simultaneously this morning (Dec 4) resulting in the arrest of five persons and seizure of drugs, cash and a firearms. An investigation by the Cran-brook/Kimberley Crime Re-duction unit linked several persons and three locations together known to be traffick-ing in drugs. Three search warrants were obtained

under the Controlled Drugs and Substance Act. Over twelve officers from Cran-brook, Kimberley, Police Dog Service and Forensic Identifi-cation Services executed the warrants at the same time to avoid subjects alerting others of police action.

Two warrants were for res-idences on Standard Hill Road, one was for a residence on 12th Street N in Cranbrook Once inside the residences

officers seized Cocaine, Fen-tanyl (disguised as Oxycotin), several thousand dollars, sev-eral firearms, one loaded and evidence to support traffick-ing charges.

Five males have been ar-rested. One of the subjects was on parole and had been released from jail only a few weeks ago. He was in posses-sion of a knife and bear spray at the time. One subject has been released for court in the

new year the others will be appearing before a Judicial Justice of the Peace by way of telephone conference later today.

“This was an excellent team effort by a number of officers and units based in Cranbrook and Kimberley,” said Cpl. Chris Newel of the Kimberley RCMP.

The investigation, plan-ning and execution of the warrants was professional

with the five being taken into custody without incident,”

“The arrest of these sub-jects will disrupt the drug trade and send a message that drug trafficking will not be tolerated,” said S/Sgt Hector Lee, Cranbrook RCMP De-tachment Commander. “Al-though the arrests took place in Cranbrook we know drug networks such as these have connections to other East Kootenay communities,”

RCMP arrest five; seize drugs, cash, weapons

CANADIAN PRESSThe B.C. Court of Ap-

peal has tossed out a bid for a shorter sentence by a man who abducted a three-year-old boy from his bedroom in Septem-ber, 2011.

A lower court judge determined Randall Hop-ley was a long-term of-fender and handed down a six-year-sentence after 26 months were deducted for time served awaiting trial. His lawyer appealed, claiming the judge should have given Hopley a day and a half for every day he was behind bars before trial instead of one day because the man was seg-regated.

But the high court re-fused to take the extra 13 months off Hopley’s sen-tence, ruling a longer prison term was focused on public protection and the belief that Hopley would complete a sex-of-fender program.

The panel of three judges ruled that sentenc-ing in this situation takes more than an approach to arithmetic, especially in dealing with a high-risk offender.

Kienan Hebert was re-turned physically un-harmed to his home in Sparwood after four days and Hopley later pleaded guilty to child abduction, two counts of break and enter and possession of stolen property.

Court rejects Hopley’s bid for shorter sentence

BARRY COULTER PHOTO

Nelson soprano Noémi Kiss — with guest trumpet soloist Tim Bullen playing behind her — is pictured with the Symphony of the Kootenays and a com-bined choir of MBSS and Selkirk students at the Symphony’s open rehearsal Saturday, Dec. 5 at the Key City Theatre. The Symphony’s seasonal concert, “A Winter’s Star,” was sold out, and featured great performances by local musicians. See more, Page 2.

< Country star returning to CranbrookJohnny Reid’s National Tour arrives Feb. 29, 2016 | Page 2

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Ym e W o e n s d r e g t

O ne of the things which defines the Christmas

season is music —l ots and lots of wonderful music. From the song of the angels at that first Christmas to the carols and new songs of Christmas, they delight

A stellar celebration of the music of the seasonSymphony of the Kootenays’ “A Winter’s Star”

us and warm our hearts.We were treated to

some of that wonderful music on Saturday night as the Symphony of the Kootenays con-tinued the celebration of their 40th season. The concert began with wonderful renditions of Happy Holidays, White Christmas and O Holy Night.

This concert fea-tured some of the young musical talent in

our area. Four local piano students per-formed with the Or-chestra. Introduced by Arne Sahlen, who re-minded us that just as it takes a village to raise a child, so it takes a whole community to foster such musical tal-ent.

Katie Feng played Bach’s “Sheep May Safely Graze”. She had a delicate, light touch and made this wonder-

ful musical treasure sing. Then we were treated to Bach’s Con-certo 1 in D minor for piano and orchestra. David Robertson played the opening movement with a self–assured and confident touch. His technical abilities were more than evident. Karen Feng played the notori-ously difficult slow sec-ond movement. Emily Daly tackled the third

movement, playing with a deft touch and a beautiful singing tone. All four young musi-cians show again what an amazing communi-ty of musical artists we have here in the heart of the Canadian Rock-ies.

The second half fea-ture a modern work by Karl Jenkins, Stella Na-talis. The orchestra was supplemented by a massed choir of stu-

dents from Mount Baker Secondary and Selkirk Secondary Schools, as well as Nel-son soprano Noémi Kiss and Symphony lead trumpet Tim Bul-len. Jenkins’ piece was a stellar celebration of the music of this sea-son. It drew the best from the young voices and the orchestra.

We were also treated to a couple of soprano highlights from Han-

del’s Messiah. Noémi Kiss has a light, agile voice which was per-fect for this beautiful masterpiece.

All in all, it was a wonderful evening for the virtually sold–out Key City Theatre. The audience left with big smiles on their faces and hearts brimming with the good feelings which are engendered by great music lovingly played.

Barry Coulter photo

Music and Artistic Director Jeff Faragher conducts the Symphony of the Kootenays and a combined Mt. Baker-Selkirk Secondary Choir at Saturday’s open rehearsal at the Key City Theatre. Also pictured are soprano Noémi Kiss and trumpeter Tim Bullen.

For the toWnsmanC h a r t - t o p p i n g ,

multi-platinum selling singer-songwriter John-ny Reid has announced his 2016 “What Love Is All About” National Tour and due to over-whelming response keeps adding dates.

Cranbrook’s Western Financial Place is now on the list of the exten-sive outing that kicks off on February 1 in Van-couver, BC and ends on April 4 in Cornerbrook, Newfoundland.

The JUNO and CCMA Award winning artist will headline mul-tiple venues across the country in support of his new album “What Love Is All About” available

now via Universal Music Canada.

Joining Reid on the “What Love Is All About” tour will be Warner Music Canada record-ing artist Aaron Good-vin and rock and roll, country soul-singer JJ Shiplett along with a special appearance by Queen of the East, Cape Breton fiddler and inter-national performer Na-talie MacMaster.

Reid’s Tartan Army Fan Club will have first access to pre-sale tickets beginning Tuesday, De-cember 8th via www.johnnyreid.com. Tickets for the show will go on sale to the general pub-lic Friday, December11.

Tickets are priced

Country star Reid returning to townJohnny Reid’s National Tour to stop

in Cranbrook February 29, 2016from $45-$74.50 includ-ing gst (S.C. extra) Tick-ets will be available at Western Financial place Box office at 10 a.m. Fri-day, or can be pur-chased by phone at 250-426-SEAT or online at www.tickets.cranbrook.ca

Reid is partnering with Plus One on the tour, donating one dol-lar from each ticket pur-chased in participating markets in support of MusiCounts Band Aid Program, which keeps music classes alive in schools across Canada and puts instruments into the hands of chil-dren who need them most.

With an illustrious career spanning more than a decade, the JUNO Award winning singer has captured the hearts

of fans and audiences around the world. A critically acclaimed vo-calist, Reid is widely known for his lyrical

honesty and musical ability, as demonstrated by his extensive cata-logue of hit songs, album sales totalling

over 1.1 million units, countless awards and multiple SOLD OUT na-tional arena tours. With the release of “What Love Is All About”, pro-duced by the legendary Bob Ezrin, the highly praised and top-ranked Canadian star will add to his remarkable cata-logue – his first brand new collection of mate-rial since 2012’s “Fire It Up”. The tour of the same name also played Cranbrook in April of that year and sold out completely. Some peo-ple have said to the pro-moters that Reid’s show was the best family-ori-ented show ever to come to the region.

Connecting with au-diences of all ages, Reid thrives as a performer and songwriter sharing his stories and songs

around the world with incalculable influence. He’s a modern day working class hero with long standing collective appeal – one that cap-tures the hearts of many one song at a time.

Johnny Reid’s “What Love is all About Tour” on February 29th is a presentation of the Koo-tenay Concert Connec-tion and Sakamoto En-tertainment. Media sponsors are Summit 107 FM the East Koote-nay’s favourite new radio station and the Daily Townsman/Bulle-tin.

For the latest tour in-formation and a full list of dates, visit: www.johnnyreid.com Follow Johnny Reid at www.facebook.com/official-johnnyreid and www.twitter.com/johnnyreid

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Ajay Uppal, with Cuisine of India restaurant in Cranbrook, donates $1,000 to Clive Brown of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 24 last week. The restaurant, jn a bid to attract customers, opened a buffet where people could try items on the menu and donate some money. At the suggestion of customers, Ajay decided to donate to the Royal Canadian Legion, with half going to the Poppy Fund to support local veterans and half towards general RCL operations.

Canadian PressA Calgary-based think-tank

says the provinces seem to be ill-prepared for the country’s aging population, and the finan-cial challenges that will bring.

Colin Craig of the Manning Centre says for the last five years, the federal government has been looking at the situation and the long-term financial impact, but provincial governments don’t seem to be doing the same.

He says the Manning Centre

asked each province what was being done and none had any in-formation, including Saskatche-wan.

Craig says an aging population is one of the most significant is-sues facing Canada over the next several decades.

A policy paper by the Manning Centre recommends that each province analyze its long-term fi-nances and share money-saving ideas.

Craig pointed to the Saskatch-

ewan government partnering with a private company to man-age hospital linens for a savings of around $93 million as a positive step.

Craig says each provincial gov-ernment should also begin regu-lar projections of their finances over 10, 20 and 30-year periods so they can predict the financial challenges ahead. If nothing is done, Craig believes taxes will have to go up substantially and services will have to be cut.

Think-tank says provinces need to be better prepared for aging population

Tre vor Cr awley

The Regional District of East Kootenay board of directors had some questions answered by Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett at a monthly meeting in Cranbrook on Friday.

According to chair Rob Gay, who was re-elected chair for the next year, the board in-vites the regional MLA out to a meeting once every six months to keep directors updated on provincial initiatives and issues that affect constituents within the riding.

“He asks us for our issues, so we gave him a list of 13 issues and he goes away and does homework on them and comes back and pres-ents on them or brings back material on them,”

Gay said. “…Today he gave us a

few ideas that we need to get back to him on so he’s asking us for our opinion on how he would like to approach other ministers within the government to help solve our problems.”

Before the meeting, the RDEK had sent a list of 13 questions to Ben-nett on a range of topics such as energy policy, treaty negotiations, off-road vehicle legislation and winter road condi-tions.

One specific topic that Bennett raised with the board had to do with land inside the Agricul-tural Land Reserve.

The sticking point in-volves the fact that land-owners within the ALR, which is specifically set aside for farmland use,

enjoy a tax break. How-ever, a recent redrawing of ALR boundaries will exclude a number of ex-isting properties within the ALR, and those landowners will lose the tax break.

The advantage of being excluded from the ALR means that land-owners have more free-dom to develop and in-crease the value of their land, according to Gay.

“He’s [Bennett] asked our board for advice to say, ‘Do we take all these folks out and say now you’ve lost your tax ad-vantage?’,” said Gay.

“Or do we say, ‘If you want to come out, you lose your tax advantage, but maybe increase the value of your land, maybe do some differ-ent things with your land that you couldn’t in

the past…’”Gay specifically iden-

tified areas near Baynes Lake and Meadow-brook, near Kimberley as property that land-owners may want re-moved from of the ALR because of the develop-ment possibilities.

Bennett floated the idea of giving property owners the option to chose whether or not they wish to remain within the new ALR boundary.

Another topic of in-terest to all board mem-bers was winter road conditions and the fu-ture of keeping high-ways clear as the gov-ernment’s contract with Mainroad Contracting will expire next year.

“He talked about the new Request for Pro-posal with the new high-

ways contract,” Gay said. “Really, who they choose is not our deci-sion, but we, as citizens, live with the results of our maintenance con-tractors, so we are inter-ested that it’s a fair pro-cess.”

Given the closure of the Canal Flats sawmill, Bennett also touched on the sustainability of the forest industry in our re-gion, along with agricul-tural production, fire fuel management and treaty negotiations.

At the beginning of the meeting, Gay was re-elected chair of the RDEK board, while Wendy Booth was also re-elected as vice-chair.

Board members also celebrated the RDEK’s 50th anniversary last Thursday evening, which was officially cre-ated in 1965 by the pro-

vincial government. It was marked by a

staff dinner and speech-es from board members.

“From Day One, the regional district has been about providing service,” said Gay, in a excerpt from his speech. “From our roots in plan-ning and the first build-ing and plumbing by-laws passed in 1966, there’s no question we have grown and

changed and our ser-vices have become more diverse.

“From specific, low cost, small service areas light street lighting in Moyie to the more re-gional solid waste, recy-cling, emergency pro-gram and 911 services, today, every resident in the East Kootenay is served in some way by the RDEK.”

MLA updates RDEK board on local issuesLocaL NEWS

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Land Act:Notice of Intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown LandTake notice that DCT Chambers Trucking Ltd., of Skookumchuck, BC, has applied to the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO), Kootenay Region, for a Lease for Industrial purpose, and a Licence of Occupation for Roadway purpose, situated on Provincial Crown land located in Skookumchuck, BC, and containing 8.03 hectares more or less.The Land Files for this application are 4405649 (Industrial Lease) and 4405654 (Roadway Licence). Written comments concerning this application should be directed to FrontCounter BC, 1902 Theatre Road, Cranbrook, BC V1C 7G1 or email to: Authorizing Agency.Cranbrook@gov.bc.ca.Comments will be received by MFLNRO up to January 7, 2016. MFLNRO may not be able to consider comments received after this date.Please visit the website at http://arfd.gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/index.jsp> Search > Search by File Number: 4405649 for more information.Be advised that any response to this advertisement will be considered part of the public record. Access to these records requires the submission of a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. Visit http://www.gov.bc.ca/freedomofinformation to learn more about FOI submissions.

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BOHJALIAN, CHRISThe light in the ruins

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2016 Garbage Collection Schedule – AVAILABLE NOW!

For your garbage collection dates for 2016, please drop by City Hall for a printed copy of your schedule or visit our website – www.cranbrook.ca and click on ‘Garbage Pickup’ on the homepage.

NOTICE OF DISPOSITION

Pursuant to section 26 of the Community Charter, notice is hereby given that the City of Cranbrook proposes to dispose of the following lands to Dustay Construction Ltd.:

Lot 1, District Lot 24, Kootenay District Plan 14459 Except Part Included in Plan NEP20273 (the “Land”)

The proposition is a sale of the fee simple interest in the Land. The consideration to be received by the City of Cranbrook is $198,000.

Any enquiries concerning this proposed disposition may be directed to the Director of Corporate Services at (250) 489-0227.

Municipal Clerk

2016 – 2020 Five Year Financial Plan Special MeetingA special meeting of Council is scheduled for budget discussions, as it pertains to the City of Cranbrook 2016 – 2020 Five Year Financial Plan. The meeting will be held on Saturday, December 12th, 2015 beginning at 9:00am in Council Chambers at City Hall. The public is welcome to attend.

The Real McKKenzie PhoTogRaPhy/KaR

The Kimberley Alpine Resort opened this weekend and the Quad Chair was full of skiers eager to make their first run of the season.

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SubmittedThe Fort Steele Heri-

tage Town annual Hal-lowe’en Spooktacular is one of the largest events in the East Kootenay with approximately 3,000 visitors enjoying the festivities each year such as haunted houses, games, trick-or-treats and fireworks.

This family favourite could not survive with-out the support of our many sponsors.

Each year, Tim Hor-ton’s donates 100% of

the proceeds from their coffee and hot chocolate sales at the Spooktacular back to Fort Steele on top of a generous dona-tion.

In the past 5 years, Tim Horton’s has donat-ed over $17,000 to the Friends of Fort Steele Society.

These donations, and others like them, help to ensure Fort Steele Heri-tage Town continues to offer community mind-ed programming year round.

Matt Gareau, Tim Horton’s Restaurant owner (centre) presents Fort Steele employees Heather Boyd (left) and Kathy Allison (right) with a cheque for $3,000 — proceeds from coffee and hot choc-olate sales at Fort Steele’s Halloween Spooktacular are donated back to Fort Steele

Tim Horton’s Spooktacular sales benefit Fort Steele

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Letters to the editorCommitment to health care

On December 3rd, I met for an hour with the new CEO of the Interior Health Authority, Chris Mazurkewich. Mr. Ma-zurkewich was in a senior role with the IHA when I was first elected 15 years ago. Back then, the East Kootenay had no re-gional hospital. We did not have full com-plements of specialists as we do today and so if you were very sick or very injured, you were at risk from an inadequate system. We did not have all our new specialists, our new Emergency ward, our new Diagnos-tics Centre or our new Ambulatory Care Centre. And of course we did not have the new ICU that is approaching completion.

In those days, Macleans Magazine did a front page story illustrating how bad rural health care was in Canada and the Cran-brook hospital was featured in the article, not in a nice way. Today in the East Koote-nay, we have one of the best rural health-care systems in the world.

In terms of family doctors, the Canadi-an Institute for Health Information’s re-

cent physician report showed that in 2014, B.C. added 320 more physicians — for a total of 10,692. More physicians are com-ing to rural B.C. — with a 6.6% increase in the number of rural family physicians in the province. B.C. has the best rate of pop-ulation per full-time GP in the country, at 125 per 100,000. We continue to work hard on this issue because there are still not enough family doctors.

We are training more new doctors. The NDP did not add a single new medical school space. There were 120 first-year medical training spaces in 1991 — and 120 in 2001 when I was first elected. Today we have 288. In 2014/15, there were 2,441 doc-tors practicing in rural areas in B.C. com-pared to 2,260 in 2010/11 — an increase of about 8%, compared to population growth of just 2.1%.

Back in 2001, we also did not have rela-tively new seniors care homes in all East Kootenay communities of 3,000 or more population, as we do today.Seniors benefit the most from an improved acute care sys-tem but home & community care is also critically important. In 2013/14, health au-

thorities delivered 8.45 million hours of home support, 21% more than just 4 years earlier. But we need more to keep patients at home longer.

In comparison with the rest of Canada, BC leads in Canada with some of the best health outcomes in the world – with some of the lowest per capita spending. Rated #1 in Canada according to the OECD in June 2014. Only province to receive ‘A’ grade overall from Conference Board of Canada in May 2013.

This is not to suggest that the health-care system is perfect. It is not and it never will be. But we are on the right track and with continued commitment to innova-tion and continued increased funding, healthcare for all citizens, especially se-niors, is constantly improving. My person-al goals are to get our own MRI at the EKRH, to ensure that we maintain surgery at the Fernie Hospital and to improve home & community care options across the region, especially for seniors.

Bill BennettMLA, Kootenay East

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Members of Cranbrook Fire & Emergency Services spent a day last week refreshing their ice rescue skills during a training event in Idlewild Lake. All members had the opportunity to enter the water both as a patient and as a rescuer in order to practice various methods of ice rescue in a safe and controlled environment. Another ice rescue session is planned for the week of December 7th so all members of Cranbrook Fire and Emergency Services have the opportunity to practice these very important seasonal skills.

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M ost powerful new technologies are double-edged. Cars are a vast improvement on horses as a

means of transportation, but they also kill more than three thousand people a day and they are a major source of pollution.

So here comes another double-edged technology, and its edges are very sharp. Gene drives can spread an engineered mutation through an entire species with amazing speed, which means that you could, for example, make the breeds of mosquitoes that transmit the malaria parasite to human being immune to the parasite themselves. (You could also just wipe those species of mosquito out, but then a lot of birds and bats would starve.)

The idea of a gene drive was first sug-gested twelve years ago by Austin Burt, an evolutionary geneticist at Imperial College in London. What drew his attention were certain naturally occurring “selfish” genes, known as homing endonuclease genes, that can get themselves passed on to the next generation more than the usual fifty percent of the time.

Burt suggested that you might use those genes to build a “gene drive” that would spread some desirable quality (like immu-nity to malaria) through an entire popula-tion in a relatively short time. But back in 2003 the task of manipulating genes was still difficult, lengthy, and unreliable.

It took Burt and his colleagues another eight years to create a homing endonucle-ase that could find and cut a gene in mos-quitoes. Other scientists were working to make artificial protein systems that would do the same job, but it was slow and pain-ful work.Then came CRISPR.

CRISPR (it stands for “clustered regular-ly interspaced short palindromic repeats”, but never mind) refers to bits of viral DNA

that bacteria carry in their genomes. With the help of an enzyme called Cas9, these CRISPRs protect the bacteria from attacks by hostile viruses. In 2012 researchers managed to modify this CRISPR/Cas9 sys-tem into a gene-editing tool.

CRISPR/Cas9 has transformed the business of genetic engineering, making it fast, accurate and cheap. It allows re-searchers to cut and paste practically any gene into any organism, and it has spread

through the world’s biology labs like wildfire.

Almost immediately Kenin Esvelt of Harvard University recognised that CRISPR is basically a hom-ing endnuclease, and in July of last year he and his col-leagues publicly proposed

turning it into a gene drive and listed some of the possibilities that opened up.

It could, Esvelt said, “potentially pre-vent the spread of disease, support agricul-ture by reversing pesticide and herbicide resistance in insects and weeds, and con-trol damaging invasive species.” Sick of the cane toads that infest Australian fields? Modify them so that their skin is no longer poisonous to predators, and watch the problem go away.

“Since the 1970s we’ve been able to ge-netically engineer individual organisms,” Burt said. “With gene drive, we could change the genetics of vast populations.” And we have gone from zero to 60 in less than a year.

Last January, Esvelt’s lab made a gene drive in yeast. In March, biologists Valenti-no Gantz and Ethan Bier at the University of California, San Diego reported online in Science that they had created a gene drive in fruit flies. They had introduced a drive for yellow colour into females, bred them with normal males — and between 95 and 100 percent of the offspring were yellow.

They then started collaborating with

Anthony James, a molecular biologist at the University of California, Irvine who has been working for thirty years on genetical-ly modifying mosquitoes so they can’t pass on malaria. Using CRISPR/Cas9, the team are now within a year of a non-malar-ia-carrying mosquito ready to be released into the wild – but they won’t do it.

James’s team have no intention of doing that it until there are clear and agreed rules for this sort of thing. They are well aware of the risk of unforeseen side-effects: “We’re not about to do anything foolish,” says James.

One of the precautions James took was to work with an Indian breed of mosquito, so that if one escaped from his California lab it wouldn’t find anyone to mate with. In the same spirit, as soon as Esvelt created a gene drive for a species of yeast he im-mediately set to work creating another drive that could over-write the first, cancel-ling the genetic changes it made. If things went wrong, the second one could be re-leased and would spread just as fast.

As Esvelt said, “the possibility of un-wanted ecological effects and near-cer-tainty of spread across political borders demand careful assessment of each poten-tial application.” You bet your boots it does.

This is a technology that can change the entire character of a wild species very quickly (or wipe it out) if just one individu-al that has been genetically altered in the lab accidentally escapes and breeds, be-cause the mutation will be passed on to ALL its descendants, and all of theirs, ad infinitum.

And, of course, we are also talking about the possibility that people with evil inten-tions mght take common, harmless insects and make them lethal to human beings. This technology will have to be handled with very great care.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist published in 45 countries.

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Wheels keep turning as Ice drop seventh straightKootenay Ice fall in back-to-back contests with Vancouver Giants & Victoria Royals as streak hits seven games

CJ Relke Photo/VanCouVeR Giants

Kootenay Ice forward Shane Allan (#16) battles for positioning with Vancouver Giants forward Carter Popoff (#42) Friday night in Vancouver. Adorned in Star Wars-themed Storm Troopers uniforms, the Giants marched to a 4-0 victory. The Ice rounded out the weekend with a 5-1 loss to the Victoria Royals Saturday night, pushing their skid to seven games. A season-long, five-game road trip for the Ice wraps up Tuesday evening when Kootenay visits the Prince George Cougars before making the trek back to Cranbrook.

Kootenay Ice Scoring SummaryFrIday, december 4

Kootenay Ice 0at VancouVer GIantS 4

First Period 1. VAN - T. Ronning, (17) (C. Popoff, R. Bondra), 10:49 (PP)2. VAN - C. Lang, (7) (T. Benson, T. Cox), 15:473. VAN - R. Bondra, (7) (D. Odgers), 17:50Second Period 4. VAN - A. Baer, (5) (T. Benson, C. Lang), 13:32Third Period - No scoringShots 1 2 3 TKootenay Ice 6 7 12 25 Vancouver Giants 14 12 10 36Goaltenders Saves Mins SV%KTN - Declan Hobbs (L) 20/24 33:32 0.833 - Wyatt Hoflin 12/12 28:28 1.000VAN - Ryan Kubic 25/25 60:00 1.000Power playsKootenay Ice 0/6 (00.0%)Vancouver Giants 1/5 (20.0%)Three Stars1) LW Tyler Benson, Vancouver Giants (2A);2) RW Chase Lang, Vancouver Giants (1G, 1A); 3) G Ryan Kubic, Vancouver Giants (25 saves)Attendance: 5,570 (Pacific Coliseum)

Saturday, december 5

Kootenay Ice 1at VIctorIa royalS 5

First Period 1. KTN - R. Dymacek, (3) (C. Fleury), 1:572. VIC - V. Bobylev, (10) (R. Gagnon, R. Nagy), 3:46Second Period 3. VIC - M. Phillips, (16) (A. Forsberg), 2:374. VIC - D. Hannoun, (15) (A. Forsberg), 15:515. VIC - M. Phillips, (17) (A. Forsberg, R. Gagnon), 19:14Third Period 6. VIC - A. Forsberg, (10) (E. Price, V. Bobylev), 11:53Shots 1 2 3 TKootenay Ice 7 10 5 22 Victoria Royals 15 15 13 43

Goaltenders Saves Mins SV%KTN - Wyatt Hoflin 38/43 60:00 0.884VIC - Coleman Vollrath 21/22 60:00 0.955Power playsKootenay Ice 0/1 (00.0%)Victoria Royals 0/3 (00.0%)Three Stars1) LW Alex Forsberg, Victoria Royals (1G, 3A);2) Matthew Phillips, Victoria Royals (2G); 3) D Ryan Gagnon, Victoria Royals (2A)Attendance: 4,593 (Save-On-Foods Memorial Arena)

Scoring StatisticsPlayer GP G A PTS PIM Luke Philp 22 13 16 29 30 Zak Zborosky 18 11 9 20 6Jesse Zaharichuk 21 4 9 13 4Matt Alfaro 31 6 6 12 42Cale Fleury 20 2 6 8 12Dylan Stewart 30 4 3 7 4Roman Dymacek 31 3 4 7 22Vince Loschiavo 31 3 4 7 16Austin Wellsby 31 3 4 7 4Tanner Lishchynsky 23 0 7 7 24Bryan Allbee 30 2 4 6 16Mario Grman 31 0 5 5 35Max Patterson 24 3 1 4 16Dylan Overdyk 29 0 4 4 10Noah Philp 30 0 4 4 14River Beattie 22 2 1 3 17Jason Wenzel 20 2 0 2 8Dallas Hines 23 1 1 2 12Jared Legien 30 1 1 2 21Shane Allan 25 0 2 2 16Troy Murray 29 0 2 2 25Jaedon Descheneau 2 0 1 1 5Wyatt Hoflin 23 0 1 1 2Eli Lieffers (AP) 2 0 0 0 0Connor Barley (AP) 3 0 0 0 0Austin Gray 6 0 0 0 2Goaltending StatisticsPlayer W L OT/SL SO GAA SPWyatt Hoflin 4 16 1 1 3.78 0.898Declan Hobbs 1 6 1 0 4.36 0.881December GlanceTues., Dec. 1 at Kamloops (5-1 L)Wed., Dec. 2 at Kelowna (4-1 L)Fri., Dec. 4 at Vancouver (4-0 L)Sat., Dec. 5 at Victoria (5-1 L)Tues., Dec. 8 at Prince George (8 p.m.)Sat., Dec. 12 vs. Swift Current*all games at 7 p.m. Mountain (unless otherwise noted)

Taylor rocc aSports Editor

The wheels on the bus go round and round, but the rubber on the Kootenay Ice wagon isn’t doing much more than spinning as the team finds itself mired in a season-long, sev-en-game skid following back-to-back losses to the Vancouver Giants (8-17-2-2) and Victoria Royals (19-8-1-1) Friday and Saturday, respec-tively.

“You can’t hide from that -- we are where we are,” said Luke Pierce, head coach of the Koo-tenay Ice, Sunday after-noon over the phone from just outside 100 Mile House as the team bus cruised on towards Prince George.

“Individually, confi-dence is at rock bottom. As a group, confidence is at rock bottom. But you still control your ef-fort. You still control your intensity. And that’s going to help you work confidence back into your game.

“No one is going to fix it for you. Nobody has any sympathy for us, nor do I expect them to. No one is going to take it easy on you and no one is going to lift you up out of the rubble.”

Friday in Vancouver, the Stormtrooper-at-tired Giants summoned ‘The Force’ during the first period of play, blasting three goals past starting goaltender De-clan Hobbs en route to a 4-0 victory.

“We weren’t sharp, we weren’t aggressive,” Pierce said. “Our puck management and deci-sion-making was slow.

“We had a real long talk after the game Fri-day night and aired some things out. We dis-cussed who we are as a team and trying to do away with any illusion of

us being an uber-talent-ed group.

“I’ve coached a lot of those types of groups in the past and you can have success. But you have to play as a team, you have to play struc-tured and you have to play smart and you have to play hard.”

Giants forward Ty Ronning, Chase Lang and Radovan Bondra struck consecutively over a span of seven minutes and that was essentially it for the visi-tors.

Giants centre Alec Baer added the fourth and final tally midway through the second pe-riod to round out the scoring, while goalten-der Ryan Kubic turned aside 25 pucks for his third-consecutive shut-out and third win of the season.

At the other end, Hobbs was yanked after allowing four goals on 24 shots. Wyatt Hoflin came on to mop up and finished the night with 12 saves.

The task didn’t get any easier Saturday in Victoria.

After Ice import Roman Dymacek opened the scoring with his third marker of the season, the Royals rat-tled off five straight goals to skate to a deci-sive 5-1 triumph.

Royals import Vladi-mir Bobylev tied the contest less than two minutes after Dymacek gave the visitors the lead.

“The whole [first] pe-riod, I thought we were strong,” Pierce said.

“You get out of [the first period] playing a real good hockey team, playing your fourth game in five nights and you’re tied 1-1. You’ve got to be happy with that.”

In the second period, the Royals pulled away

as Matthew Phillips scored bookend tallies sandwiched around a mid-period marker from Dante Hannoun and Victoria carried a 4-1 lead into the dressing room after 40 minutes.

“They’re all controlla-ble mistakes,” Pierce said of the Royals’ second-pe-riod strikes, all of which came off Ice turnovers. “Whether that’s fatigue, or confidence or whatev-er, we have to find ways to remedy that.”

Veteran forward Alex Forsberg rounded out the scoring in the third period by adding his 10th of the season, giv-ing himself a four-point night (1-3-4).

Between the pipes, Royals goaltender Cole-

man Vollrath earned his 16th win of the cam-paign by steering aside 21 of the 22 shots sent his way.

At the other end, Hoflin was once again busy as he made 38 stops on 43 shots.

The Ice roster suf-fered further attrition Saturday as forward Dylan Stewart (head) was lost to injury early in the contest. At this point, the Edmonton native is considered day-to-day.

The Ice spent Sunday on the road once again as they make their way north from Vancouver Island to Prince George for a Tuesday evening tilt with the Cougars (16-9-1-1).

Janie Mcc auleyAssociated Press

Zack Greinke will still pitch in the NL West. But surprise - with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The Diamondbacks unexpect-edly won the Greinke sweep-stakes, beating out the rival Los

Angeles Dodgers and San Francis-co Giants for the free agent ace Friday night. He reached agree-ment on a $206.5 million, six-year deal, sources told Associated Press.

The major league ERA leader and runner-up for the NL Cy Young Award boosted the Dodg-

ers to their third straight division title this season. Then, the 32-year-old righty opted out of his con-tract, leaving $71.5 million on the table- and wound up with the richest deal, by yearly average, in baseball history. The $34.4 million average will be the sport’s highest.

Diamondbacks sign RHP Greinke to record contract

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) You generally are as extroverted and intense as they come. You might not understand what is going on with you, but you’ll have a need to retreat. Process a matter about a loved one. Don’t make the assumption that this experience is negative; it’s just different. Tonight: As you like it. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You could be in the position of allowing others to take the lead, when you normally wouldn’t. Consider how you could change the way you and others see a sit-uation, but keep those thoughts to yourself unless someone asks for feedback. Tonight: The only answer is “yes.” GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You could be concentrating on one specific issue and doing some research. You might have difficulty indulging in conver-sations about other matters, as your mind is elsewhere. Be will-ing to take a risk. Tonight: Take the time you need for yourself and/or a project.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) You might not be able to close down the muse that lies within you. Your creativity can’t be shut off easily. You might want to re-main relatively discreet. You will know when the time is right to share more of your thoughts and ideas. Tonight: Let the fun begin! LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You’ll want to rethink a personal situation. You might feel as if you see eye to eye with the oth-er party involved and can come to an agreement. You rarely feel strongly about these type of situations, but decide to make it OK anyway. Tonight: Head home early, if you can. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You might want more free time to visit with a partner. You could be overwhelmed by an option you never expected to have in your life. Enjoy the moment, but be rational in your choices. What a loved one feels could be off as well. Tonight: Continue the hap-py moment. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You will be very tempted to make a certain purchase and/or

head in a certain direction. You will find the experience or the item to be close to impossible to turn down. Make sure you are aware of the costs of this expen-diture. Tonight: Meet a friend for some eggnog. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Sometimes, when we overthink a personal matter, we get into trouble. Perhaps you need to take some time off for holiday shopping, if nothing else. You could be taken aback by how much fun you have doing what often has seemed like a chore. Tonight: The world is your oyster. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Several friends might notice a serene quality emanating from you. It more than likely stems from a personal matter. In fact, some of you might be upset about an issue, but you are on your way to letting it go, or at least seeing it from a different perspective. Tonight: All is well. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Stay focused on the long term. Often, you find that others don’t seem to understand where you are coming from. All the activ-

ity that surrounds you needs to be pushed away if you are to accomplish anything. Politely isolate yourself. Tonight: Open the door for others. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) One-on-one relating takes on a new level of caring that some-how leaks into other areas of your life. The possibilities for change are many, should you decide to take a leap of faith. Understand that your expecta-tions sometimes are off. Tonight: Out till the wee hours. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Look at the big picture, and you will make a much better deci-sion. A situation that you might have perceived as being hostile likely has become one of caring. You feel much better once you break down barriers between you and others. Tonight: Start hanging up some mistletoe. BORN TODAY Basketball player Larry Bird (1956), businessman Richard W. Sears (1863), baseball player Johnny Bench (1947) ***

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March 16, 1967 – November 29, 2015

It is with great sadness that the family of Christopher Paul Weitzel announces his passing on November 29, 2015 at the age of 48.

Chris is survived by and will be so deeply missed by his loving wife Laurie, son Nick (Natalie), daughter Jordan, father George, his four dogs (Rocky, Boomer, Tehya & Candy), Tick the cat plus many many dear friends and relatives.Chris was in his element riding his Harley “Hair straight back.....eyes a waterin’”, climbing a mountain surrounded by nature and in the company of his loving family and friends. Everyone who knew Chris will have their own special memory of the guy who was always willing to lend a hand and help a friend in need. Most recently Chris will be remembered for the incredible strength and positive attitude he had.He educated us throughout his journey and became an inspiration to many.A celebration of Chris’ life was held on Saturday December 5, 2015 at 3:00pm at McKim auditorium in Kimberley.In lieu of flowers the Weitzel family asks that you consider a donation to another family battling cancer as they know first hand not only the financial impact illness has but also the impact of support from friends and community members. Chris & Laurie do not support the Canadian Cancer Society.

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Let the moons light guide me through the nightLord, thank you for letting me be a biker.

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2015 Christmas CollectionDeluxe Fruit Trays & Gourmet Gift Baskets

Gourmet Gift Baskets available!BULK & NATURAL FOODS

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Cranberry trail mix, peanuts and honey

roasted almonds join hands around a center

of Foley’s macs and buds, heralding that

Christmas is just around the corner!

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Hey man, you’re a Nut... Lover... Christmas rainbow trail mix and sweet

honey roasted peanuts are featured on this re-useable tray. Two taste sensations that

are sure to please.

You asked Santa for it, and you got it! Chocolate covered almonds, nuts, trail

mixes, jujubes and Christmas Kisses... a little bit of everything to please everyone.

Dried fruits from around the world, bring back visions of Christmas’s past.

Madein store,variety

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You asked Santa for it, and you got it! You asked Santa for it, and you got it! You asked Santa for it, and you got it! You asked Santa for it, and you got it! Dried fruits from around the world, Dried fruits from around the world, Dried fruits from around the world,

2.14 lbs $2295

2.69 lbs $2995

3.33 lbs $3695

2.09 lbs $2595

1.70 lbs $1995

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Used 20’ Seacan containers $2119New 20’ Seacan containers $2983

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Thursday, December 10th4:00 - 7:30 p.m.

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C a n a d i a n P r e s sHALIFAX - Nearly a

century ago, two ships collided in the narrows of the Halifax harbour and caused a devastat-ing explosion that brought the First World War to the shores of North America.

The 98th anniversa-ry of the Halifax Explo-sion, which left roughly 25,000 people dead, in-jured or homeless, was marked on Citadel Hill today with a canon blast at the time of the disaster.

At 9:04 a.m. on Dec. 6, 1917, the French cargo ship SS Mont-Blanc, loaded with ex-plosives, collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo, creating the largest man-made ex-plosion prior to the de-velopment of nuclear weapons.

C anadian PressMONTREAL - Cere-

monies were held Sun-day to mark the 26th anniversary of the Mon-treal Massacre where 14 women were shot to death at the Ecole Poly-technique.

White roses were laid on pillars in a park near

the school this after-noon to remember the victims.

Representatives of women’s and aboriginal

rights groups reminded the public that women in Canada still face vio-lence.

Marc Lepine’s

20-minute shooting rampage at the Univer-site de Montreal’s engi-neering school in 1989 sparked a national

gun-control debate that rages until this day.

He ranted during the carnage that feminists had spoiled his life.

Ceremonies mark anniversary of Montreal Massacre

Halifax Explosion’s anniversary marked

Wikipedia

SS Imo aground on the Dartmouth side of the harbour after the explosion

Ken Hynes, curator of the Army Museum at Citadel Hill, says it’s im-portant to commemo-rate the event, which killed 2,000 people, so that it doesn’t become lost in time.

“It was really the only time the First World War came to the shores of North Ameri-ca. Halifax shared some of the fate of cities like Ypres and Flanders... whose cities were de-

stroyed by the First World War.”

Hynes said the bow of the Imo stuck the Mont Blanc and ignited a fire onboard the ship, which was carrying barrels of benzol, TNT, picric acid and guncot-ton. The centre of the resulting explosion reached 5,000 C and the blast wave created a three-metre tsunami that further damaged Halifax’s shoreline.

Halifax’s north end was reduced to rubble and windowpanes were blown out across the city, he said. It was more than two months before some people could return to their homes, and many peo-ple did not have homes to return to, said Hynes.

A fragment of the hull of the Mont Blanc is on display at the mu-seum, as well as a rifle that was found by a citi-zen in the debris after the explosion.

Hynes, a retired army major, said pieces of the French ship were discovered up to three kilometres from the site of the explosion.

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