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TOWNSMAN STAFFThe Family First

Night returns to Cran-brook for the second year as a family friendly way to celebrate the New Year with a plenty of activities.

Community Con-

nections Society of Southeast BC hosts the annual night, which takes place New Year’s Eve from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. at Western Financial Place.

The inaugural event was a huge success last

year. It sold out all 500 tickets and people of all ages from Cranbrook and surrounding areas participating in the many family friendly activities.

Organizers said the feedback was positive

from last year’s event and spurred the addi-tion of a few more activ-ities to be added to this year’s event.

Activities will in-clude open swimming, open skating, face painting, a photo booth,

crafts, carnival games and live entertainment. This year there are also the additions of live ice sculpting demos, an ice slide and horse-drawn sleigh rides. There will also be food vendors at the event.

Safire Dance will be returning this year and are one of the headline entertainers at the event. Safire Dance is a group of Alberta-based circus performer — world renowned, they’ve performed in 14

different countries around the world and delivers a variety of acts including fire dancing, staff spinning, contact juggling and hoop dancing.

Family First Night offers New Year’s Eve fun

TRE VOR CR AWLEYIt has been quite the year

for Bill Bennett. The Kootenay-East MLA

has been active both in the riding and at the provincial and national levels as he heads up the provincial Min-

istry of Energy and Mines and is involved with interna-tional negotiations for amendments to the Colum-bia River Treaty.

Bennett was a big part of the decision-making process that recently approved the

construction of the Site C Dam and also complete a core review of provincial government operations in an effort to find more efficient ways of doing business.

But 2014 hasn’t been without it’s challenges for

Bennett, which has primarily come from the fallout of the Mount Polley tailings dam disaster.

Bennett recently spoke with the Daily Townsman for a year-end interview to talk about the highs and lows of

the last 12 months. Starting off close to home

in the Kootenay East riding, Bennett said he was excited to see construction get un-derway for the new ICU ex-pansion at the East Kootenay Regional Hospital.

JESSICA PLATZ PHOTO

We may occasionally become so used to the beauty of the area we live in that we take all that natural beauty for granted. Luckily there are photographers around to remind us how lucky we are. The above photo was taken by Jessica Platz of Cranbrook at White Boar Glacier this past summer and is the fall winner of the Look Outside photo contest featuring the beauty of the Purcell Mountains. The photo is entitled “a life without adventure is unlikely to be satisfying”. You can find more information about the ongoing contest at wildlookoutside.com, or on the Facebook page Look Outside.

“The regional hospital here has been my number one priority since I was elect-ed in 2001,” Bennett said. “We have spent already $50 million in it, in the new diag-nostics area, the new rehab area and so fourth, so the ICU is the next logical step.

“Money was tight, so it was something that I’m proud of, as a local MLA, to get money from the govern-ment.”

Bennet also nodded to the core review — a project which he was in charge of for the last 18 months where he was tasked with finding effi-ciencies in government op-erations.

Out of that core review came changes to the Agricul-tural Land Commission de-cision-making process, which has been a sore point in the past for many East Kootenay residents, accord-ing to Bennett.

“We made it more ac-countable to the people who own the agricultural land. It was a very unaccountable or-ganization since its incep-tion,” Bennett said.

“There are the regional panels that we have now cre-ated, we’ve got regional, local people making decisions in-stead of bureaucrats from Vancouver — they now have this different decision-mak-ing matrix where they are al-lowed to take into account first and foremost the quality of the agricultural land, that’s still number one and will al-ways be number one, but secondly, all the criteria such as the economy and commu-nity interest.

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“And we think with that broader criteria for decision making that we’re going to get fairer decision from the Koo-tenay panel, from all the panels across the prov-ince.”

Though it may not resonate much in the southeast corner of B.C., Bennett added that the construction approval for the Site C Dam is a monumental decision from the government.

As energy minister, Bennett was a big part of the decision-making process leading up to the project’s approval. The dam is expected to produce 1,100 mega-watts of electricity that will be able to power 450,000 homes.

“It’s an $8.775 billion project, the biggest pub-lic sector project ever in British Columbia and the reason that I’m so proud of that is that this dam is going to provide cheap electricity to my grandchildren and great-grandchildren,” said Bennett. “It’s going to last for 100 years, just like these other major hydro-electric dams that we have on the Peace River and the Co-lumbia River.

“It was a very difficult and controversial deci-sion, but sometimes it’s those difficult and con-troversial decisions that are the most important in politics. They’re the hardest ones to make

but they give you the most satisfaction be-cause you know that they’re right.

Bennett noted that there are roughly a dozen farms that will be flooded behind the dam once it is built, adding that approving the proj-ect in light of that was a tough call to make.

“But it’s a decision that’s in the best interest of the vast majority of British Columbians, and therefore, although it’s difficult to make it, it’s satisfying to be able to make decisions like that.”

On the topic of dams, Bennett is also the B.C. government representa-tive for handling negoti-ations to the Columbia River Treaty. The treaty requires a 10-year no-tice for termination or amendments, the first available date of which passed earlier this year in September.

Bennett delivered a speech to an American crowd in Spokane in the fall where he told the audience that the U.S. enjoys more benefits from the treaty than the Canadian side.

The provincial gov-ernment has reached out to their American counterparts with the goal of re-negotiating various aspects of treaty.

“Right now we’re waiting for the U.S. State Department to respond to B.C.’s statement that

we would like to retain the treaty but we’d like to sit down with our U.S. friends and negotiate some improvements to it,” said Bennett. “They are entitled to leave things the way they are. They don’t have to do anything or say any-thing; the treaty just car-ries on in its current form if that’s what they wish.”

As Minister of Energy and Mines, Bennett has his finger on the pulse of the industry in B.C., which is a big contribu-tor to the province’s economy.

“Mining is an im-portant component of our jobs plan,” said Ben-nett. “I have to ensure that there are new mines opening up in B.C. We went through long peri-ods in the 1990s where for every mine that opened, two closed. It was a difficult time, so we’ve recovered from that and we do have new mines opening.

“We’ve had five new mines open in the last three years, which is a very significant accom-plishment.”

He noted that com-modity prices are low in areas such as copper and gold, which makes it a difficult environ-ment to encourage in-vestment. That being said, there are always projects in the works in which companies target the next upswing in prices, he added.

“My job is to make sure that we are able to have a competitive per-mitting framework for those companies to do business in,” Bennett said. “If we are far more difficult, far more ex-pensive, far more time-consuming than other jurisdictions — such as Manitoba, Que-bec, Alberta and Ontar-io — we will lose invest-ment to those jurisdic-tions.”

However, the 2014 year wasn’t without it’s

challenges for Bennett and the Liberal govern-ment on the mining front, the biggest of which was the tailings pond breach at the Mount Polley mine.

“That’s a huge chal-lenge both for me per-sonally as the mines minister and for our government and it’s frankly a huge challenge for the mining industry, because the mining in-dustry in B.C. has al-ways held itself up as a very reliable, safe indus-try,” said Bennett.

“But this happened, and we can’t shrink from the fact that it hap-pened, so we need these investigations to com-plete so we can under-stand how it happened and take whatever steps need to be taken to en-sure it never happens again.”

While Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) is not in the Ministry of Energy and Mines portfolio, the de-velopment of the LNG industry are a vital part of the Liberal govern-ment’s economic plat-form moving forward. Controversial projects have been proposed in Kitimat and Prince Ru-pert, and proponents

have been lukewarm to investment opportuni-ties after the Liberal government released an LNG tax scheme.

“We have 18 different proponents in the prov-ince right now looking at specific develop-ments,” said Bennett.

Though there may be people who doubt the viability of the industry now, Bennett said he believes people will be surprised by LNG’s growth over the next two years.

“Each of these large LNG plants represents a minimum of $12 billion in investment in B.C.,” said Bennett. “And I think you’re going to see — I won’t say how many — but I think you’re going to see certainly more than one and less than 10, but you’re going to see significant investment decisions coming our way in the next two years.”

In addition to his cabinet position as mines minister, Bennett led a core review of the provincial government, which culminated a few weeks ago where $50 million was identified in savings by tweaking op-erations in ministries

and crown agencies. “I think probably

more important than the money we found to save for the taxpayer, was that we found doz-ens of different ways that ministries and crown agencies can do business more effective-ly so that the budgets they have are being used in a way that gets more for the taxpayer,” said Bennett.

He cited the decision to collapse the Pacific Carbon Trust, which saved $4 million with the Ministry of Environ-ment stepping in to cover the Trust’s re-sponsibilities. He also found $2 million in sav-ings by dissolving the Provincial Capital Com-mission, with the Minis-try of Community De-velopment stepping up take over the Commis-sion’s role.

“My process was not strictly based on let’s find savings and let’s find ways to cut,” Ben-nett said. “My process was largely let’s work with the ministries and agencies to find ways to do things smarter, let them keep using the budget they have, but more effectively.”

“(Site C Dam) was a very difficult and

controversial decision, but sometimes it’s those difficult and

controversial decisions that are the most

important in politics. They’re the hardest

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There will also be a special countdown cele-bration during the last part of the evening. This is the event finale and gives families with young children a chance to participate in the ex-citement of a New Year’s Eve celebration.

Tickets for the event are $5 per person (ages 3 and under are free). The maximum cost to any family is $25. There are special rates for those that hold a Lei-sure Program Access

Card. Tickets can be purchased at Leisure Services in Western Fi-nancial Place. This event is provided for residents and their guests to enjoy, for a minimal cost thanks to the generous donations from sponsoring busi-nesses and organiza-tions.

Community Con-nections Society of Southeast BC (CCS) is a non-profit organization that provides programs and services to Cran-

brook and the East Koo-tenay Region. Since in-corporation in 1982, Community Connec-tions Society has provid-ed integrated, accessi-ble social services to in-dividuals and families throughout the East Kootenay Region. For more information about CCS, check out their website at www.ccscranbrook.ca.

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The vehicle is a 2008 Smart Car. It is yellow and black in colour, with a li-cence plate that reads 573-MCB. The plate is registered in B.C.

It was stolen from the general area of Western Lodge, 2665 Warren Ave, in Kimberley, B.C.

The theft took place on Dec 27,

2014, between 6:30 p.m. and 11 p.m.Police noted the vehicle is also dec-

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April 1One day after being discharged

from hospital in Saskatoon, Koo-tenay Ice forward Tim Bozon — who had contracted meningitis, — stepped back into his home arena and took part in game-day preparations with his team before dropping the puck in a ceremoni-al face off to a thunderous stand-ing ovation. The Ice went on the defeat the Calgary Hitmen before a sold-out crowd.

April 2The man charged over an Oc-

tober 2012 carjacking near Cres-ton and subsequent police chase through Cranbrook has been sen-tenced to another two years jail for the offenses.

Nickolas Bullock, 27, pleaded guilty last July to two counts of robbery, one count of assault with a weapon, one count of dangerous driving, and one count of evading a police pursuit, resulting from a crime spree on October 2, 2012 that began in Port Coquitlam and ended in Cranbrook.

April 3North America’s professional

soccer league has established a presence in the Kootenays and are looking to further expand

Brett Adams, the regional head coach for Vancouver Whitecaps FC Kootenay Academy Centre—based in Nelson— spoke to the Townsman how he and the pro-fessional soccer team are working on expanding the club’s profile and programs into the region—specifically in Cranbrook.

April 4A B.C. Supreme Court judge

dismissed on Thursday, April 3, a legal challenge by the Ktunaxa Nation to the Jumbo project being built by Glacier Resorts in the Pur-cell Mountains. The Ktunaxa claim that the sacred Grizzly Bear Spirit lies within a swath of the area. The Jumbo project currently is at a standstill, and the Ktunaxa are appealling.

April 8One of Canada’s greatest stage

actors — and certainly Cran-brook’s greatest actor — spoke to the Townsman about being recog-nized for his career and body of work with the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Life-time Artistic Achievement. “I feel really grateful that I’ve been able to make a living at it.” Toronto has been Carver’s home for many years, but his roots in Cranbrook are deep. He spoke of how he ap-preciated the vibrancy of the local theatrical communities, students and adults.

April 10An engineering firm complet-

ed a peripheral structural review of the old city garage building and found that it is a suitable candi-date for restoration. Nelson Engi-neering Inc (NEI) performed the review as per request from Ken Haberman, one of the Cranbrook

residents that spearheaded the movement to preserve the brick building behind city hall. The building was originally slated for demolition last year, but that was put off after a delegation of volun-teers came forward hoping to re-store it.

April 14Ashley MacIsaac, revolution-

ary fiddle player and maverick musician spoke to the Townsman about all things fiddle prior to his Key City Theatre concert. Over a 20-plus year career, he has taken traditional fiddle playing and in-corporated it into the most mod-ern of styles — hip-hop, rock, elec-tronica — thus helping reinvent the genre.

April 16The residents of Caldwell Road

on the western edge of Cranbrook watched with alarm as water en-croached on their properties. Some 10 households line the frontage road beside the highway leaving town to the east are backed by Elizabeth Lake, a famous wet-land and wildlife sanctuary, which was subject to unprecedented flooding this year.

April 17A Cranbrook youth recently re-

turned from the Miss Teenage British Columbia pageant with a prestigious title. Kyrie Jackson was to next head to the national Miss Teenage Canada pageant in July as Miss Teenage Kootenays and she will represent the region.

April 22An important vote for ?aq’am

(St. Mary’s Band) gave approval to a new land code for the Ktunaxa community outside Cranbrook. Band members voted from Mon-day, April 14 to Wednesday, April 16 on whether they supported the land code, which sets regulations that would remove one-third of the legislation in the Indian Act. 141 ballots were cast, and 103 were in favour of adopting the land code.

April 23The East Kootenay SPCA

marked Wednesday, April 23, as Animal Abuse Prevention Day, and presence of Nelson the Cat is a stark reminder that acts of ani-mal abuse are widespread and commonplace everywhere, in-cluding here in the East Kootenay. Nelson was recovering at the East Kootenay SPCA after having sur-vived a hideous act of animal cru-elty. Nelson (named after Willie Nelson’s ‘The Highwayman’), had been shot in the head seven times with a pellet gun and had had his neck sliced at. The good news is that Nelson survived and recov-ered, although he will forever be traumatized by the horrific event.

April 24B.C.’s Minister of Education

was given the royal treatment at Mount Baker Secondary School in Cranbrook on Tuesday, April 23. Peter Fassbender, MLA for Sur-

Regional district representatives had a chance to clear some confusion, as well as vent some frustrations, at the new provincial recycling program being implemented around B.C.

Allen Langdon, managing director of Multi-Material British Columbia (MMBC) was in the hot seat as he took question from Regional District of East Kootanay directors at a committee meeting on Thursday afternoon, May 1. Langdon was there to answer ques-tion about the benefits of being in the program.

May 6The Ktunaxa Nation launched a

legal appeal against a B.C. Supreme Court ruling about the proposed Jumbo Glacier Resort. The First Nation announced on Monday, May 5, that it had filed papers with the B.C. Court of Appeal. The decision came after the Ktunaxa argued in a judicial review that Jumbo Glacier Resort violates its charter rights to religious freedom by desecrating land that is sacred to them, which the Ktunaxa know as Qat’muk.

After hearing the judicial review in January, Justice John Savage ruled on April 3 that the B.C. Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Opera-tions had adequately consulted the Ktunaxa prior to approving the four-season resort in 2012 and did not

infringe on the Ktunaxa’s constitution-al rights.

May 7A Cranbrook woman was vying to

be named Extreme Huntress 2015. Ni-kita Dalke was one of 20 semi-finalists in the competition that looks for a fe-male hunter who will be a role model for other women who participate in hunting.

Online voting for the semi-finalists continued until the end of May, and then the six finalists with the highest number of votes won a ticket to the 777 Ranch in Dallas, Texas, where they would compete for the title of Extreme Huntress 2015. The contest pitted the six women against one another in a hunting skills competition. The final, is Sunday, Jan. 4.

May 8 There was a changing of the guard

at Nutter’s Bulk and Natural Foods, but customers may not have noticed a big difference as the previous and new owners have a similar philosophy to small business. Denise Pallesen, who owned and ran the franchise in Cran-brook for the past 17 years, sold the store to Dawn Torgerson, who also owns Cranbrook Home Hardware with her husband Martin, on May 1.

Looking back on 2014A day by day look at the year past, through the top stories in the Cranbrook Daily Townsman

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rey-Fleetwood, visited the area this week by invitation of Koote-nay East MLA Bill Bennett. Mount Baker, which is 60 years old, has been slated for replacement for the past five years. In that time, four Ministers of Education have toured the high school to see how dire the need is for a replacement.

April 28Members of the BC Mayors’

Caucus renewed a call for solu-tions to a number of issues affect-ing municipalities, as they wrapped up the conference on Friday, April 25. Those recom-mendations included a call for a full review of ambulance service delivery and a call for elimination of the ad-hoc grant process in fa-vour of a more sustainable model. The conference brought mayors from all around the province to Cranbrook and Kimberley from April 23-25.

April 29It was reported that Sgt. Dave

Dubnyk was been appointed De-tachment Commander of the Cranbrook RCMP. It’s a return to Cranbrook for Sgt. Dubnyk, who spent eight years here from 1991 to 1999 on his first posting.

May 2A Cranbrook family of five was

reeling after learning that stay-at-home mom Brandy Sims is suffer-ing from a rare brain condition that could leave her paralyzed without surgery.

In March, doctors found Bran-dy has a rare congenital brain con-dition that is giving her daily head-aches and pain and numbness in her hands. While she was born with the condition, called a Chiari brain malformation, Brandy only began noticing symptoms last year.

May 5

Barry Coulter file photo

Nelson the Cat become a symbol of the horrors of animal abuse in April, 2014. The cat was subjected to hideous acts of torture and abandoned. Nelson was found, rescued and nursed by the East Kootenay SPCA, and expet-ed to recovered.

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May 9 The driver of small

car was killed in a colli-sion with a semi on Wednesday, May 7, be-tween Moyie and Yahk, west of Cranbrook. RCMP reported that a 65-year-old man driving a blue Ford Fiesta rental car westbound on High-way 3/95 crossed the yellow broken centre line into the eastbound lane, into the path of a tractor-trailer.

May 12For the past 28 years

Dr. Abdul Aleem has been one of Cranbrook’s main general surgeons, and at the end of March, he retired from the pro-fession. At his home in Cranbrook, Dr. Aleem said he has relished his time as a surgeon here.

May 13Unemployment in

the Kootenays rose to 7.9 per cent, just six months after it dipped to a B.C. low of 3 per cent. According to the BC Stats Labour Force Statistics report for the month of April, released on May 9, the Kootenay region had unemploy-ment significantly high-er than the provincial average of 5.8 per cent.

May 14It was reported that

both Cranbrook resi-dents and those outside the city were in favour of continued deer man-agement, including culls, by the city accord-ing to the results of the recently tabulated Deer Resident Survey. Cran-brook respondents were overwhelmingly in sup-port of the city under-taking further culls to control and manage the

deer population, with 70 per cent (642) in favour and 30 per cent (276) not in favour.

May 16It’s the time of year

when baby Western Painted Turtles are emerging from the sands of Elizabeth Lake. To celebrate the emerg-ing miniature reptilian turtle babies, the Fish and Wildlife Compensa-tion Program, along with support from Rocky Mountain Natu-ralists held the first ever Turtle Day at Elizabeth Lake.

May 21South Country resi-

dents were left with a horrible cleanup this week after long week-end campers left behind a pile of garbage on Crown land near Koo-canusa. Area B director Heath Slee said he visit-

ed a popular camping spot beside the reservoir on Monday, May 19 and found a scene that he called a sign of “wreck-reation on Koocanusa”.

“For a moment I thought I was standing in the middle of (the) landfill – the only differ-ence being, there was no equipment in place to bury the litter,” Slee said.

May 22Two of the four peo-

ple charged over a series of Cranbrook home in-vasions appeared in court via video on Tues-day, May 20.

Andrew Monnette and Jay Hills are the two remaining men facing lengthy charges in con-nection with two home invasions in Cranbrook on December 18 and 26 last year. Their co-ac-cused, husband and

wife Terrence Allan and Megan Sands, pleaded guilty and were sen-tenced in April to eight and five years jail re-spectively for their role in the incidents.

May 23Teachers around the

province would begin one-day rotating strikes on Monday, May 26. Shelley Balfour, presi-dent of the Cranbrook District Teachers’ Asso-ciation said the move to strike is not something teachers take lightly.

May 26About 2,000 Cran-

brook properties were hit by a power outage on Thursday evening, May 22, after a semi hit a power pole on Victoria Avenue. According to RCMP, just before 5 p.m. on Thursday, a semi col-lided with a BC Hydro pole outside Canadian Tire on Victoria Avenue in Cranbrook. The driv-er was not injured and the semi didn’t sustain any damage, but the re-pair costs to the power pole and lines are esti-mated to be more than $20,000, said Cpl. Barry Graham of the Cran-brook RCMP.

May 27A troubled develop-

ment within City of Cranbrook limits, sitting on the banks of the St. Mary River, went into re-juvenation mode this past spring. The proper-ty formerly known as Shadow Mountain was purchased by Westpoint Capital, an Edmonton investment fund man-ager. And Westpoint has invited the public to a pair of open houses at the site — now known as River’s Crossing — this upcoming week-end, Friday and Satur-day. Earlier this year, the adjacent golf course was purchased by an Edmonton-based oil and gas company.

May 29A group stepped for-

ward to organize Cran-brook’s Canada Day cel-ebration, which last year was hurriedly organized by the City of Cranbrook after no one offered to coordinate the event. Connect Church orga-nized the July 1 festivi-ties, including a fire-works display, starting at 5 p.m. back at Moir Park.

May 30One of the four peo-

ple involved in a home invasion in Cranbrook last December was sen-tenced to four years’ jail. Jay Leonard Hills plead-ed guilty in Cranbrook court on Wednesday,

May 28 to robbery with a firearm and disguising the face with intent to commit an offense in connection with a home invasion on December 26.

June 3The second day of

the teachers’ strike in Southeast Kootenay was moved from Friday, June 6 to Thursday, June 5. The B.C. Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) an-nounced that it would be going ahead with a second round of rotat-ing one-day strikes in its ongoing dispute with the B.C. government.

June 4At the first Relay for

Life without rain for five years, more than $66,000 was raised on May 31 for the Canadian Cancer Society. Fund-raising totals for the Cranbrook Kimberley Relay for Life surpassed more than $66,000 for cancer research by 215 participants in 31 teams.

June 5Students at Parkland

Middle School in Cran-brook joined their peers across B.C. on Wednes-day in a school walkout protesting the impacts of the continued dispute between teachers and the province. The prov-ince-wide walkout, hastily organized via so-cial media this week, saw students leave class at 9 a.m. Wednesday morning to show their frustration with limited access to teachers and loss of class time during the rotating one-day strikes and partial lock-out that began last week.

June 6For the past three

springs, the man known as the walking monk has been making his fourth journey across Canada. On his route through Cranbrook, Bhaktimar-ga Swami took some time to talk to the Townsman about this journeys and why he walks.

June 9A Cranbrook-based

program that provides support for people liv-ing on the street was recognized provincially and documented in a short film. The four-minute documen-tary was made possible by Community Action Initiative, according Shannon Girling-He-bert, administrator of quality assurance and service integration at Street Angel.

June 10On Tuesday, June 10,

police officers and

members from around Canada gathered for the funerals of three RCMP officers who were killed in the line of duty last week in Moncton, New Brunswick.

June 12Cranbrook Mayor

Wayne Stetski held a press conference out-side Cranbrook City Hall on Wednesday, June 12, to announce that he’ll be seeking an-other term as mayor.

June 13Work began on a new

section of the Trans Canada Trail between Cranbrook and Ward-ner. The crushed gravel surfaced trail will follow the Isadore Canyon trail to Mayook, then contin-ue along an abandoned rail corridor to Wardner Provincial Park beside the Kootenay River, with a bypass around private land in Mayook.

June 16It was reported that

more than 3,000 people in Cranbrook would be without a family doctor as five physicians are closing down their fami-ly practices this year. Dr. Sheela Mistry and Dr. Rina Fourie announced plans to close their prac-tice at the Associate Medical Clinic while Dr. Bob Cutler retired in the summer. Dr. Stuart Mac-donald switched from family practice to emer-gency medicine and and Dr. Helena Buchar mover her practice to Kimberley.

June 17Danielle Nicholson

of Cranbrook won the Senior Classical Voice competition out of a class of nine others from around the province. Nicholson also won an award for best perfor-mance of a Canadian piece in Senior Voice. The provincial festival was held in Penticton, June 2-7. Six performers and one observer were in attendance from the East Kootenay.

June 18The tale of the bear

cubs saved by two Cran-brook residents a month ago took a negative turn, after Fisher, one of the two cubs fell ill. The cubs, Fisher and Jo, had been at the Northern Lights Wildlife Shelter since late May, when Cranbrook residents Stephanie McGregor and Colleen Bailey found and organized for the young cubs to be brought to the shelter in Smithers, B.C.

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June 19The man who ab-

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June 20Cranbrook citizens

gathered on Thursday, June 19, and sealed up a special time capsule to be opened in 2039. The large time capsule sits upon a rock slab be-hind the Cranbrook and District Chamber of Commerce head-quarters on the strip, the crowning achieve-ment of the 50th cele-bration of Sam Steele Days.

June 23Seven young ladies

wooed a full house at the Key City Theatre on Friday, June 20 for the 2014 Sam Steele Youth Ambassador pageants. At the evening’s con-clusion, Devon Kenne-dy was crowned 2014 Sweetheart of Sam Steele, and Kendall Bostock was crowned 2014 Princess of Sam Steele.

June 26Cranbrook came off

its biggest celebration weekend in years, but in relation to crime, Sam Steele Days was relatively quiet, accord-ing to local RCMP.

Cst. Katie Forgeron said the RCMP re-sponded to 111 calls for service between Friday, June 20 and Sunday, June 22.

June 30Kootenay Ice cap-

tain Sam Reinhart was drafted second overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 2014 NHL Draft on Friday evening in Phila-delphia. Fellow Ice teammates were also picked up as Rinat Va-liev went to the Toronto Maple Leafs in the third round, while Tanner Faith went to the Min-nesota Wild and Jaedon Descheneau went to the St. Louis Blues both in the fifth round.

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It’s been a fun challenge working at a daily newspaper, which was made even more interesting after switching from the sports desk to the news desk at the begin-ning of September. It’s been a little differ-ent, going from writing everything about sports to writing about everything but sports. Nonetheless, it’s been a good switch and I’ve covered some important and en-joyable stories over the last four months.

The municipal electionCovering the municipal

election was both an enjoy-able and migraine-inducing experience. What was initial-ly believed to be a quiet race turned into everything but, as a record number of 16 council candidates declared their intent to run, while three more candi-dates put themselves up for the mayoral seat. The pulse of the community was ap-parent at the JCI All-Candidates Forum in the Key City Theatre, which featured a packed house as Cranbrookians came out to see the electoral slate. The results were also a little surprising, considering no in-cumbents were re-elected—a rarity at any level of politics. However, the new team has settled into their new responsibilities and seem to be handling things well as they begin to chart the next four years of Cranbrook’s future.

Gunning for the Extreme Huntress crown

Kimberley’s Nikita Dalke mobilized a social media campaign to finish as a top finalist for the title of Extreme Huntress.

She, along with five other competitors from across the world, were jetted to Hondo, Texas, where they spent a week filming specialized hunts and challenges at the 777 Ranch. Dalke, who has extensive hunting experience in the East Kootenays, showed off her abilities with a rifle at the range and out on the ranch pastures, bag-ging two animals over the course of the show. In terms of points, Dalke currently

sits in second place, but the public can help her reach her goal of claiming the title by voting for her on the Ex-treme Huntress website.

Cheyenne Learn murder trial

The crime of murder is rare in a small town setting

such as Cranbrook, and the circumstances were rarer still, as the re-trial for Cheyenne Learn took place at the end of November 2014. Learn was convicted of second-de-gree murder in 2009— two years after the shooting death of Tammy Ellis—but he was awarded a new trial on appeal in 2013. In front of Justice Dev Dley in Cranbrook Supreme Court, crown and defence coun-sel presented their cases, calling eyewit-nesses, RCMP and experts for direct- and cross-examinations. After a fourteen-day trial, Learn was convicted of second-de-gree murder and has a sentencing hearing in January 2015.

BCTF settles with the provinceThe BCTF and the provincial govern-

ment settled a new collective bargaining agreement after strike action and a lockout

closed the last week of school in June and the opening two weeks in September. The teachers’ union voted to go to a job action in March and voted for a full scale strike in April. At issue was wage packages and ben-efits, while the union was also waiting for the potential fallout from a court case. At issue was the province’s appeal of a deci-sion from the court that ruled the govern-ment illegally stripped control of class size and composition from a previous collec-tive agreement in 2002. After many duel-ling press conferences in provincial media, BCTF president Jim Iker, education minis-ter Peter Fassbender and mediator Vince Ready hammered out a new deal in the middle of September.

Honourable sports mentionGord McArthur’s Sochi sojourn

Cranbrook has produced three notable Olympians in Scott Niedermayer (hockey) Ben Rutledge and Joy Ward-Fera (rowing), but a fourth joined their ranks this past year as Gord McArthur headed to Sochi, Russia, as part of an ice climbing demon-stration. Though just a demonstration sport—meaning there was no official podi-um for gold, silver and bronze—McArthur joined climbers from around the world to show off their sport and make a case for Winter Olympic inclusion. McArthur has been competing for the last few years on the UIAA World Cup circuit, where he has consistently been the top North American climber in a strong field normally domi-nated by European and Asian talent. McArthur is back on tour for the 2015 sea-son and recently claimed the North Amer-ican championship.

Year of living journalistically

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Over the past year I have had the plea-sure of covering many interesting stories. Here are a couple of my favourite stories of the year:

Bear cub rescueA group of local hikers came across two

young bear cubs up the Bull River Road. After some time they surmounted that the mother bear had abandoned them or died. The story about the rescue of the two cubs and their journey to the Northern Lights Wildlife Society shelter in Smithers, B.C. got my byline on a Canadian Press newswire story and then the Huffington Post, Vancouver Sun and others.

The stories also brought to my attention the amazing work that the Northern Lights Wildlife Society does.

The bears were caught by captured by Cranbrook residents working on behalf of the Northern Lights Wildlife Society. They were dehydrated and starving, so the vet was called in to give them vitamin shots and assess their health. Once it was con-firmed that the mother had indeed died, the bears were taken by Stephanie McGre-gor and Colleen Bailey to Golden, where they met a volunteer who drove the bears to Jasper. There they were picked up by shelter staff and driven the rest of the way to Smithers.

Angelika Langen, manager at the shel-ter, noted that the bears handled the May 19 trip relatively well .

“They are starting to gain weight and they are looking better physically,” Langen said Smithers.

The bears both recovered despite a few health scares over the next months.

“We couldn’t believe how everyone came together for these bears,” said Steph-anie McGregor, who was one of the hikers

that found the bears. “It’s so amazing.”

Council sits on backyard chicken debate

Could the hens come back to roost on Cranbrook backyard chickens?

That’s what twelve-year-old Sierra Col-man hoped when she approached city council on the sometimes contentious issue of backyard chickens. The Highland Elementary Student sent a letter to the city on the topic with the hopes that the topic

could be revisited. In the letter, Sierra argued

that it doesn’t much make sense that people in Vancou-ver are free to raise up to four hens in their backyard, while in Cranbrook the municipal bylaw prohibits it.

The letter spawned a number of fol-low-up letters from students in Cranbrook. It also brought the issue into focus for many for and against allowing chickens to be raised in backyards. Many letters came in to the editor of the Townsman citing problems with raising chickens, while oth-ers said the concerns were unfounded when chickens are raised responsibly.

In Vancouver, for instance, residents are not allowed roosters, other fowl or live-stock.

At the time, Mayor Wayne Stetski noted city council had had a discussion on the topic years ago when a resident brought forward a request to raise, not only chick-ens, but other animals in Cranbrook and it was voted down.

City staff were working on an urban ag-riculture strategy that would look at back-yard chickens, though it remains to be seen how friendly the new council will be to the idea.

What are your thoughts on backyard

chickens?

The fluoride revolution that was not to be

The push to remove fluoride from the drinking water of the few remaining mu-nicipalities in B.C. seemed to hit a running stride in the run-up to the Nov. 15 referen-dum. But of the three municipalities that had similar referendums, Cranbrook stood alone in continuing fluoride additions. Sparwood and Prince George residents opted to remove the chemical leaving Cranbrook one of four in the province — along with Fort St. John, Prince Rupert and Terrace —  that still fluoridates the water.

The debate on the merits and dangers of fluoride got quite heated, with a coali-tion of dentists and doctors campaigning to keep it in the water, while a those wor-ried about potential harmful effects cam-paigned against it.

However, despite the outcome of the referendum, which was a close 53 per cent to 47 per cent, comments and letters about fluoride have continued to come into the Townsman office over the month Novem-ber and December. Some commenters noted they were confused by the wording of the referendum question and may have voted either “yes” when they meant “no”, or “no” when they meant “yes”.

Others argued that fluoride is a form of mass-medication and therefore should not be left to democratic process for a deci-sion. As it is Cranbrook spends $30,000 a year on adding hydrofluorosilicic acid to the drinking water. The fluoride is added by a small metering pump at the Phillips Reservoir and is set at a concentration of 0.8 mg/l.

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Binyamin Netanyahu, “Bibi” to both his friends and his ever-growing list of enemies, is running for a fourth

term as the prime minister of Israel. He called the election, two years early, be-cause the leaders of two of the parties in his coalition government had become too openly hostile to his policies. So he is roll-ing the dice again in the hope of being able to form some different coalition.

That’s what he always does. His coali-tions draw mainly on the centre-right and, increasingly, the far right, partly because that is where he stands personally on “se-curity” issues and partly because Israel opinion in general has been drifting steadi-ly to the right. But beyond that, he has no fixed policy. His primary goal is to hold his coalitions together and stay in power.

Netanyahu is hardly unique in this. Pro-fessional politicians anywhere tend to di-vide into two types, the “conviction politi-cians” and the players, with the majority usually in the latter category. He is a tre-mendously good player of the game, but it has a paralysing effect on Israeli politics.

Since he cannot afford to come down in favour of either a real “two-state” solution that allows for an independent Palestine or a single Israeli-ruled state that permanent-ly controls all or most of the occupied Pal-estinian territories, Israel never gets to choose between the two. Until, perhaps, now.

Netanyahu’s excuse for refusing to

choose has usually been the lack of a valid Palestinian negotiating partner, and there is certainly some basis for that. Mahmoud Abbas, the “President” of the Palestinian Authority, has not faced an election, even within his own Fatah party, for ten years. Moreover, Abbas has no control over the 40 percent of the Palestinian population who live under Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip.

But it is more an excuse than a reason. Genuine negotiations envisaging a Israeli withdrawal from most or all of the West Bank and a real Palestinian state, even a demilitarised one, would destroy any coa-lition Netanyahu has ever built. Going flat-out with the extreme right-wing project for a “one-state” solution incorporating the whole West Bank but denying Palestinians the vote would do the same. Result: per-manent paralysis.

Indeed, Netanyahu has even encour-aged Israelis to believe that this peculiar status quo can be a lasting substitute for a negotiated settlement of the Israeli-Pales-tinian conflict. This is a ridiculous proposi-tion, but it clearly has appeal for Israelis who would like to believe that they can have security without the pain of territorial compromise.

Meanwhile, however, the outside world has been losing patience. Abbas has been pushing for a November, 2016 United Na-tions deadline to end the Israeli occupa-tion unless two-state negotiations have succeeded by then. And last week the Eu-

ropean Parliament voted to recognise Pal-estine statehood “in principle” as part of the two-state solution, with Jerusalem as the capital of both states.

The United States has used its veto on the UN Security Council to shield Israel from resolutions that criticise the country forty-one times in the past forty years. In-deed, it has used its veto for no other pur-pose since 1988. Israelis fully expect Barack Obama to use it a 42nd time to defeat Mahmoud Abbas’s appeal for a two-year deadline for an agreement on a two-state solution when it comes before the Security Council, most likely in January.

They are probably right, but Obama will be sorely tempted to let people think that he might not use the veto, and perhaps also to push the Security Council vote down towards the 17 March date of the Is-raeli election, in the hope of influencing Israeli voters to turn away from Netanya-hu.

It’s quite common for Israeli voters to push back when they feel they are under foreign pressure to make concessions, so this could actually play out to Netanyahu’s advantage. A great deal can happen be-tween now and 17 March, so one shouldn’t give too much weight to current polls. But at the moment, the numbers suggest that Netanyahu’s gamble on forming a new co-alition may not succeed.

And that might open the way to one last attempt to make the two-state solution work.

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Mistaking a police car for a taxi, dropping an intoxicated friend off at the wrong house and getting cash tips from passengers who thought they were in a cab are just some of the experiences des-ignated drivers across the province have shared with ICBC.

ICBC is sharing stories like these to raise awareness and encourage drivers to take their turn as the designated driver and plan a safe ride home if they’ll be drinking at holiday parties and get-togethers.

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stories shared by designated drivers in a recent survey:

“Many years ago in Prince George I was [doing a ridealong with the] RCMP. We were parked outside a bar. A person came out of the bar, opened the rear passenger door and sat down. Believing they were in a taxi they gave their address. The officer noted the address was close so he drove them home. When they tried to pay, the officer gave them his business card and said, “Tonight’s ride is on us – thanks for calling a cab.” I guess in this case the RCMP was the designated driver and I have no

doubt the next day many questions about the trip home must have been going through the passenger’s mind when they saw the police card.”

“I delivered an in-toxicated friend to an address he gave me only to find out the next day that he didn’t live there. The residents looked after him and I drove him to his actual home the next day.”

“I drove a couple of friends home after a Christmas party and neither one could remember how to get to their houses. We

played ‘Does this look familiar?’ for over two hours in two different cities…”

“I was designated driver for my brother-in-law in Belgium this summer. I got to drive his Mercedes CLS 320. If only I had more friends with high-end or exotic cars. Anyone with a Porsche Turbo need a driver?”

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“I was driving some-one home and he was giving me directions. When we arrived, he got out and was met at the door by a woman who refused to let him in. Turns out, they had been divorced for two months and in his drunken condition, he forgot he no longer

lived there.”

“Wife’s 20-year reunion. Some of the occupants thought they were in a taxi and tried to pay me.”

“I was designated driver for twelve ladies celebrating a birthday. I rented a van and drove them to several bars. I was surrounded by all these beautiful women and they would only dance with me… I nev-er had a better night in all my single life.”

“Listening to my friends sing ‘Don’t Cry For Me Argentina’ over and over again.”

“When my son called me at 3:00 am to get a ride home… He was in his late twenties and he said, “You know how you always told us when we were teenag-ers that you didn’t care what time we called that you would give us a ride home rather than drink and drive, or drive with someone who was drinking? I never took you up on it, so I am calling in that offer now!”

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Kootenay Ice captain Sam Reinhart and Team Canada took on Finland Monday night at the 2015 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship.

Dynamiters fall in FernieNitros forward Jared Marchi taken to hospital after collision in third period

Kimberley Dynamiters Scoring SummaryMonDay, Dec. 29

KiMberley DynaMiterS 1at Fernie GhoStriDerS 2

First Period1. FER - D. Georgopoulos, (C. Tilsley), 2:16Second Period 2. FER - J. Peers, (Z. Kuchler, S. Bender), 9:18Third Period 3. KIM - B. Saretsky, (J. Busch, J. Marchi), 5:29 (PP)Shots 1 2 3 TKimberley 14 8 12 34Fernie 10 11 8 29Goaltenders Saves Mins SV%KIM - Tyson Brouwer 27/29 58:51 0.931 FER - Jeff Orser 33/34 60:00 0.971Power playsKimberley 1/8 (12.5%); Fernie 0/4 (00.0%) Attendance: 1,140

Upcoming GamesJan. 2 at Columbia ValleyJan. 3 vs. Columbia ValleyJan. 9 at FernieJan. 10 at GoldenJan. 13 vs. Creston ValleyJan. 16 at OsoyoosJan. 17 at North OkanaganJan. 23 vs. Columbia Valley

Goaltending StatisticsPlayer W L OT/L SO GAA SPTyson Brouwer 16 7 3 1 2.71 0.900Liam McBain 2 6 0 0 3.96 0.861

Scoring StatisticsPlayer GP G A PTS PIM Jason Richter 36 27 17 44 10Lincoln Lane 32 8 24 32 32Jordan Busch 35 6 25 31 11Coy Prevost 35 9 19 28 25Eric Buckley 33 9 19 28 84Jared Marchi 36 10 14 24 49Braden Saretsky 28 7 17 24 57Keenan Haase 35 11 8 19 18Jesse Wallace 36 8 9 17 6Marco Campanella 30 7 8 15 28Austin Hancherow 33 4 10 14 10Alex Rosolowsky 31 9 3 12 2Jonas Gordon 25 2 9 11 18Sawyer Hunt 27 3 7 10 6Trevor Van Steinburg 34 2 8 10 8Jordan Roy 10 4 4 8 8James Jowsey 32 1 7 8 4Charles Dagostin 32 0 3 3 25Tyler Kinnon 30 0 3 3 45Brady Revie 25 2 0 2 32Rory Mallard 27 0 2 2 8James Rota (AP) 2 0 1 1 0Korbyn Chabot (AP) 3 0 0 0 0Tristan Pagura 2 0 0 0 0Jacob Bromley (AP) 1 0 0 0 0Tyler Van Steinburg (AP) 1 0 0 0 0

Reinhart shinesKootenay captain scores two; Canada remains undefeated

Bill BeaconCanadian Press

MONTREAL - It was the Sam Reinhart line’s turn to shine for Canada at the world junior championship.

Reinhart scored twice, Anthony Duclair had another and Max Domi had two assists as Canada took revenge on Finland with a 4-1 victo-ry on Monday night.

“It’s every line, every night, at least for the generating part of it,” Reinhart said. “We were able to carry the mo-mentum through all four lines and that’s what’s needed in a tour-nament like this.”

Curtis Lazar had the other goal for Canada (3-0-0), which ends group stage play with a showdown against the United States (2-0-1) for first place on Wednes-day night.

Montreal Canadiens prospect Artturi Leh-konen scored for Fin-land (0-2-1), which must beat Germany on Wednesday to advance to the quarter-finals.

Since their selection camp opened on Dec. 11, Canada’s coaches have stressed speed and skill on all four lines and, so far, it has worked.

In a tournament opening 8-0 win over Slovakia, the Robby Fabbri-Nic Petan duo did much of the dam-age. In a 4-0 win over Germany, Connor Mc-David had three points.

There was a clear step upward in competition against Finland, the de-fending champion, but even the tight-checking Finns couldn’t hold off Canada’s relentless at-tack. Canada outshot Finland 36-28.

“They tighten up, but we moved the puck the best,” said Reinhart. “We’ve got the most speed and it made it easier on entries. Against teams that trap, that’s what we’ve been practising.”

At last year’s tourna-ment in Malmo, Swe-den, Finland beat Cana-da 5-1 in the semifinals to ensure the Canadians would go a fifth-straight year without a gold medal.

Reinhart, one of seven returning players, said revenge was not the main issue. But ven-geance drew a smile from team captain Lazar.

“Especially for us re-turning guys,” said the Ottawa Senators winger. “We know the program

they have there (in Fin-land) is outstanding. They won the tourna-ment last year. We knew we couldn’t take them lightly. I felt that all through our lineup, we were ready to go.”

The Finns have scored only once in each game and are 0-for-13 on the power play in the tournament. And now they’re in a must-win game against the Germans.

“Now we can see how big and how much character this team has,” said Lehkonen. “If we bounce back and beat Germany, we’ll be stronger for this experi-ence and we’ll be a stronger team when we face Sweden or Russia (in the quarter-finals).”

Canada got the opening goal 5:32 into the game when Rein-hart fed Shea Theodore at the point and then tapped his rebound past Juuse Saros.

The crowd of 15,718, the largest so far at the Bell Centre, roared when Julius Honka tied up Domi for a moment in a corner. But when they got up, Domi slipped a cross-ice pass to Duclair, whose pass in front was defected over Saros by

Reinhart for his second of the game and of the tournament.

The Finns got one back when Samuel Morin misplayed a puck in his zone and Leh-konen jumped on it and banged his own rebound past Zach Fucale with 1:34 left in the second period. It was the first goal allowed by Canada, which has outscored its opponents 16-1.

Domi took the puck hard to the net and Du-clair was on the door-step to lift in his rebound

11:15 into the third peri-od.

Saros dropped a Josh Morrissey point shot and Lazar poked in the loose puck on a power play at 14:25 to make it 4-1.

It was a strong game for Fucale, who made a big stop on a Roope Hintz breakaway in the first minute and a hand-ful more big saves. Saros was almost as good in the other net, and got a break when Domi hit a post from the slot in the second period.

“We knew it would

be a hard-fought game and we were ready for that,” said Fucale, who was the losing goalie last year against Finland. “We were very confident coming into the game. We played a strong team game.”

Coach Benoit Groulx said he will announce on Tuesday whether Fu-cale or Eric Comrie will start in goal against the Americans.

The open flow of the first period was a sur-prise as the Finns went on the attack after fall-

ing behind early. There was a stretch of more than five minutes with-out a whistle in the first that featured big scoring chances at both ends.

Notes - The Canadian juniors are 23-8-6 all-time against Finland. . . Finland dropped Pitts-burgh prospect Kasperi Kapanen to the second line and promoted Juuso Ikonen. . . Canada went 2 for 3 with the man ad-vantage and is 5 for 10 for the tournament.

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The Kimberley Dy-namiters and Fernie Ghostriders put on an-other exciting show Monday night, but a 2-1 Ghostriders win was overshadowed by a scary incident late in the third period of play at Fernie Memorial Arena.

With less than five minutes to play, Dyna-miters forward Jared Marchi went heavily into the boards in the corner of the offensive zone and did not get up.

At least 10 minutes elapsed while Marchi was tended to by trainers and players from both teams, paramedics, fire-fighters, and Dynamiters head coach Jerry Bancks.

“I hate it when any-body gets injured,”

Bancks said following the game. “Jared is the heart and soul of this team.”

Marchi moved his arms and hands, but was kept mostly still as responders braced him and eventually placed him on a stretcher be-fore he was taken via ambulance to Elk Valley Hospital in Fernie.

As Marchi was being taken off the ice on the stretcher, Bancks walked alongside and with a smile on his face, had a quick word with his 19-year-old alternate captain.

“We kind of have an inside running joke, so I can’t tell you what that was,” Bancks said with a laugh. “It’s just some-thing to let him know how much I care and appreciate [him]. I

thanked him for his ef-fort, which I’ve had for two years now.”

Following the com-pletion of the game, the Dynamiters visited Mar-chi at Elk Valley Hospital. According to Bancks, Marchi suffered no frac-tured vertebrae, but did sustain muscle and liga-ment damage in his neck. He was set to spend the night in hospi-tal and will be reassessed Tuesday morning.

“I couldn’t ask to be surrounded by any bet-ter people than I already am!” Marchi tweeted following the game. “Thanks for everything! #Teammates #brothers #family”

Despite the intense rivalry that exists be-tween the Ghostriders and Dynamiters, Mon-day’s incident provided

proof that a certain brotherhood does exist within the game of hockey, even though it may not seem that way when Kimberley and Fernie meet.

“It’s scary to see that stuff,” said Ghostriders forward Justin Peers. “You don’t want it to happen to anyone, even if it is the opposite team.”

Ghostriders forward Derek Georgopoulos, a Cranbrook native, grew up playing minor hock-ey alongside Marchi, a Kimberley native. Even though the two now suit up on opposite sides of a heated Eddie Moun-tain Division rivalry, Monday’s events show a certain respect remains.

“Hockey kind of takes a back seat,” Georgopou-los said after the game.

“I didn’t even know

what to do. I don’t even know what to say right now. It was obviously an accidental play. I didn’t even see what hap-pened, I just saw him go down.”

Georgopolous was one of the Ghostriders players who helped tend to Marchi, skating a spinal board from the bench to where his for-mer minor hockey

teammate was situated on the ice.

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Fernie goaltender Jeff Orser makes one of his 33 stops Monday night with Kimberley forward Eric Buckley lurking around the crease. Orser and the Ghostriders went on to edge Buckley and the Dynamiters by a final tally of 2-1.

Nitros lose Marchi

C ANADIAN PRESSEDMONTON - The Oilers have claimed Matt

Fraser off waivers from the Bruins.Edmonton adds some size and skill with the six-

foot-one, 204-pound winger from Red Deer, Alta.The 24-year-old Fraser has three goals in 24

games for Boston this season.The Oilers placed forward Steve Pinizzotto on

waivers while claiming Fraser.Fraser is on a US$625,000, one-year contract.

Oilers claim former Ice F Matt Fraser

Off to The HatKootenay Ice visit Tigers Tuesday

Tuesday, dec. 30

KooTenay Ice aT MedIcIne HaT TIgers

GAME TIME: 7 P.M. (MT)LAST MEETING: MHT 4 at KTN 1 (Dec. 9)

ICE vs. TIGERS (20-17-0-0) RECORD (25-9-1-1) Fourth (Central) DIVISION First (Central) Seventh (Eastern) CONF. Second (Eastern) 119 GF 146 134 GA 96 Seventh (21.2%) PP 11th (20.1%) 12th (79.5%) PK Seventh (83.1%) J. Descheneau (19-25-44) TOP SCORER T. Cox (14-48-62) W. Hoflin (3.29 GAA) TOP GOALIE M. Langhamer (2.47 GAA) W5 STREAK W1 4-3 W at CGY LAST GAME 8-4 W vs. LET Jan. 2 at RDR NEXT GAME Jan. 3 vs. SCB

“I looked into his eyes and it was just sheer panic,” Georgopo-ulos said. “It was hon-estly one of the worst moments of my hockey career. It was terrifying.”

After Marchi had been taken off the ice, both teams still had nearly five minutes of hockey to play in the third period of an im-mensely important game in which the score was 2-1.

“We’re all worried about him. We’re all scared, obviously,” said Dynamiters captain Jason Richter Monday night.

“We still have a job to do. When it comes down to it, we’re still trying to win the game and play for him.”

Richter and the Dy-namiters pressed as the clock wound down in the third period, but the tying goal never came as the Ghostriders held on for a 2-1 victory.

Georgopoulos scored the opening goal of the game, while Peers tallied midway through the sec-ond period with what stood as the eventual game-winning marker.

In a light moment following Peers’ goal, a rooster was sent flying out onto the playing surface at Fernie Me-morial Arena.

“That chicken, that’s something I’ve never ex-perienced before,” Peers said after the game.

“I thought the refs would [pick up the chicken] but they were scared of him. They were telling me to go get the chicken. So I went and grabbed it. It was squirming around. I’m pretty sure it pooped on my pants.”

Braden Saretsky re-sponded for the Dyna-miters with a pow-er-play goal in the third period moments before Marchi went down in the corner.

Monday’s helter-skel-ter game wrapped up a 10-day period in which the Dynamiters and Ghostriders went head-to-head three times. After the Nitros grabbed a 4-2 victory at home Dec. 20, the Ghostriders claimed back-to-back victories -- 6-4 Sunday in Kimberley and 2-1 Mon-day in Fernie.

Ghostriders goalten-der Jeff Orser made 33 saves for the win, while Tyson Brouwer was sharp all night for the Dynamiters, turning aside 27 pucks at the other end of the rink.

A total of 1,140 fans took in Monday night’s contest, including a fan bus, which travelled all

the way from Kimberley with Dynamiters fans.

Apart from Marchi, the Dynamiters also lost defenceman James Jowsey to a concussion. Jowsey suffered the in-jury in the third period after being on the re-ceiving end of a high hit from Ghostriders cap-tain Dylan Robertson, who was penalized for elbowing on the play.

Marchi and Jowsey join a long list of injured Dynamiters. That list al-

ready includes , de-fenceman Jonas Gor-don (upper body, week to week), forward Saw-yer Hunt (upper body, week to week), forward Marco Campanella (lower body, four to six weeks), forward Jordan

Roy (collar bone, four to six weeks) and defence-man Tristan Pagura (upper body, indefinite). Trevor Van Steinburg (undisclosed) also did not play Monday.

The Dynamiters (18-14-1-3, 40 points) and Ghostriders (26-5-1-2, 55) will resume their Eddie Mountain Divi-sion rivalry Jan. 9 at the Fernie Memorial Arena.

Until then, the Dyna-miters’ next action comes Jan. 2 when they visit the Columbia Valley Rockies (6-23-0-6, 18), while the Ghostriders are set to suit up Dec. 31 with a New Year’s Eve tilt in Creston against the Thunder Cats (16-13-1-3, 36).

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tAyloR RoCC ASports Editor

The Kootenay Ice visit the Medicine Hat Tigers Tuesday night on the second game of a four-game road trip.

The Ice (20-17-0-0, 40 points) look to build upon a five-game win-ning streak, while the Tigers (25-9-1-1, 52) aim to maintain control over the WHL’s Central Divi-sion lead.

In the most recent meeting between the two teams, the Tigers left Cranbrook with a 4-1 victory Dec. 9.

Trevor Cox, the WHL’s leading scorer with 14 goals and 62 points heading into Tuesday’s tilt, paced the Tigers with a goal and an assist Dec. 9.

The two teams have met three times so far in the 2014-15 campaign, with the Tigers earning two victories, both at Western Financial Place in Cranbrook (7-3, Nov. 19; 4-1, Dec. 9).

The lone victory for the Ice came Nov. 22 in Medicine Hat as goal-tender Wyatt Hoflin put on a clinic, stopping 48 shots in a 3-0 Kootenay triumph.

The native of Spruce Grove, Alta. has done nothing but soar since then, starting 25 consec-utive games for the Ice, tying a franchise record for consecutive appear-ances by a goaltender (Todd Mathews, Jan. 21 to March 14, 2009). Should Hoflin get Tues-day’s start, he will be-come the lone holder of

the franchise record.Ice captain Sam Re-

inhart leads his team in scoring against the Ti-gers this season, regis-tering one goal and four assists in three games.

The native of North Van-couver won’t be avail-able Tuesday night as he remains with Team Canada at the 2015 IIHF World Junior Champi-onship.

Protect our earth.The Cranbrook Daily Townsman and the

Kimberley Daily Bulletin promote recycling.

We use vegetable-based inks, and our newsprint, tin and aluminum waste is recycled.

Calgary Flames win third in a rowDARREN HAyNES

Canadian Press

CALGARY - Jiri Hud-ler had a pair of beauti-ful set-ups Monday night as the Flames scored twice in the first period and then hung on for a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings.

Curtis Glencross and Markus Granlund had the goals for Calgary (20-15-3). The Flames have won three games in a row since a sev-en-game losing streak.

With the win, the Flames pull even with Los Angeles, San Jose and Vancouver in the Pacific Division. How-ever, the Kings hold one game in hand, San Jose has two games in hand and the Canucks have four.

Tyler Toffoli scored for Los Angeles (18-12-7), who kicked off a

three-game road trip through Western Cana-da that continues Tues-day night in Edmonton.

The Kings entered the game with a hot power play, having con-nected on nine of their last 17 chances. But the Flames, ranked 26th in the NHL on the penalty kill, blanked them on both of their chances.

With a chance to open the scoring in the first, the Kings were de-nied on two good chances with Jonas Hill-er making stops off re-directions from Anze Kopitar and Richards.

Notes: Los Angeles forward Marian Gaborik (flu-like symptoms) did not play. He is on a six-game scoring streak (7-3-10). Taking his spot was Jordan Nolan, a healthy scratch the past eight games... On de-fence for the Kings, Jeff

Schultz made his season debut in place of Brayden McNabb... Flames centre Mikael Backlund is getting clos-er to returning. On Mon-day, he practised with the team in a non-con-tact jersey. He’s missed 27 games since having abdominal surgery.

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The B.C. government is pre-paring for increased shipping traffic on the North Coast, from liquefied natural gas to contain-ers and bulk commodity exports.

The planning and policy office of the B.C. Ministry of Transpor-tation has posted an invitation to bid on a “marine services needs assessment” for B.C. shipping, with a closing date of Jan. 16. It avoids mentioning oil shipping, but that would be included in the study.

“The ministry is interested in how increases in vessel traffic

may impact demand for marine services along the coast,” says the invitation on Canada’s Business Network. “Proposed projects in-clude container terminals, energy projects including natural gas liq-uefaction and export terminals, an bulk commodity export facili-ties.

“Some of these projects pro-posed new elements for the prov-ince, whether it be handling new commodities such as LNG and other energy products, or devel-oping port projects in parts of the province where the marine ser-vices industry is not well devel-oped, such as Kitimat and Stew-

art.”Kitimat is proposed as an ex-

port site for LNG and Alberta heavy oil, with a history as an aluminum smelting and petro-leum products centre.

Stewart, a remote coastal community at the head of the Portland Canal, has a population of about 500 across from Alaska’s Misty Fiords National Park.

Chinese investors behind Canada Stewart Energy Group Ltd. have proposed a floating LNG facility to begin production in 2017, with a second phase of land-based production to follow.

Study to prepare for North Coast shipping increase

PACIFIC NORTHWEST LNG

LNG export terminal proposed by Petronas-led group for Lelu Island at Prince Rupert port is one of a series of new shipping facilities being considered for B.C.’s North Coast, with others at Kitimat and Stewart.

C ANADIAN PRESSVICTORIA - The B.C. govern-

ment says more students are graduating from high school than ever before.

The province’s six-year stu-dent completion rate sits at 84.2 per cent for 2013-14, an increase of more than 10 per cent from 2000-2001.

The government says the in-crease accounts for all students, including aboriginal, special needs and those who are learning English.

The completion rate mea-sures the percentage of students who graduate within six years from the first time they enrol in Grade 8.

The data shows graduation numbers for indigenous students reached a record high in 2013-14 to over 61 per cent, and comple-tion rates for special needs stu-dents have improved by 86.2 per cent.

The highest completion rate in B.C. was in the Fort Nelson school district, sitting at 99.7 per cent.

Graduation rates are on the risein British Columbia, province says

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Annoyed that you had to download a sep-arate app, Facebook Messenger, to chat with your friends and family on the world’s most popular social network? Too bad.

Facebook has no in-tention of reversing that contentious move. In fact, it plans to move more features from its main mobile app into separate apps in 2015.

“We’re getting away from that single app that does everything for you. We released nine different apps in 2014 and I think what you’ll see is we’ll release more in 2015 - at the demand and behest of our users,” says Jordan Banks, the managing director of Facebook Canada and the global head of verti-cal strategy.

“(Users) want single apps that do one thing

incredibly well. So one of the reasons we took Messenger out of the (Facebook) app and gave it its own stand-alone app is because that’s what our users were telling us. They didn’t want to click two or three times before they got into Messen-ger.

“So I think that will be a major trend going forward, you will con-tinue to see this multi-app orientation come from Facebook.”

While Banks insists he’s only heard good feedback, forcing users to download a separate app for Facebook Mes-senger stirred a loud chorus of complaints. On the Apple App Store, there are more one-star reviews panning Face-book’s move than rave ratings.

Facebook says it now has 20 million Canadi-ans accessing the social

network monthly and 15 million on a daily basis.

While those num-bers are plateauing, mobile usage continues to spike.

There are 16 million Canadians accessing Facebook with a phone or tablet monthly, up 23 per cent from a year ago. About 12 million are daily Facebook users on a mobile de-vice, which is up 28 per cent over last year.

Founder Mark Zuck-erberg was spotted vis-iting Vancouver in 2011 but hasn’t been to Face-book Canada’s main To-ronto office yet. He’s not big on travel, Banks says, which reflects his focus on using his time as efficiently as possi-ble. He even wears the same style of grey T-shirt daily just so he doesn’t have to think about his clothes in the morning.

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