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SOUTHERN CHARM AND DETERMINATION COMBINE: The cast of Cranbrook Community Theatre’s “Steel Magnolias” is excited to bring this much loved story to area audi-ences. (L to R) Elizabeth Ross, Joanne Wilkinson, Kirsten Kasner (back), Michelle McCue (front), Hannah Van der Roest, and Susan Hanson. ‘Steel Magnolias’ opens Friday, Nov. 16 at the Studio Stage Door in Cranbrook. See more, Page 7.

SALLY MACDONALDTownsman Staff

Using clover traps to cull deer is not an effective way to solve Cranbrook’s problems with urban wildlife, according to a national environmental group.

City council on Monday, No-vember 5 heard a presentation by Liz White, director of Animal Alliance of Canada, and Barry MacKay, the Canadian repre-sentative of Born Free U.S.A. who travelled to Cranbrook from Toronto to ask the city to reconsider its urban deer con-

trol methods.White said that culling deer

in clover traps, Cranbrook’s cho-sen method thus far, is ineffec-tive because it cannot target problem deer, the animals are under stress before they are killed, and more deer will move in to take the place of the deer that have been culled.

Last November, Cranbrook culled 25 urban deer – 11 white-tail and 14 mule – using clover traps.

It was the first of three East Kootenay communities to carry

out a cull with a license from the B.C. Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Opera-tions.

Cranbrook was preparing to cull another 50 deer this winter, but the plan has been placed on hold while legal action against the District of Invermere for its cull is resolved.

But White suggested to coun-cil that “indiscriminate killing” of deer fails to solve complaints of aggressive deer.

CAROLYN GRANTDaily Bulletin

What’s in a name? Premier Christy Clark announced this week that a new Crown corporation to market British Columbia as a tourist destination has been created — Destination B.C.

But Columbia River - Revelstoke MLA Norm Macdonald (NDP) says that it is simply Tourism BC reborn, by the same BC Liberals who scrapped it three years ago.

At the time, Gordon Campbell was Premier and Tourism BC was folded into the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Arts in order to reduce administra-

tive costs, allow for better co-ordina-tion of marketing initiatives and make it easier to ensure the entire province benefits from the 2010 Olympic Games.

That certainly didn’t happen, Mac-donald says.

However, Dave Butler of Cranbrook, who is chair of the Tourism Industry of BC Provincial Destination Marketing Organization Task Force, which worked on developing Destination BC for 15 months, says the new Crown corpora-tion has some significant differences from Tourism BC.

New Crown corporation far more than a remake of Tourism BC, task force chair Dave Butler says

Destination BC is born

See DESTINATION , Page 4See HAZING, Page 3

Animal Alliance says ‘indiscriminate killing’ of deer doesn’t fix the issue

Cull inhumane, group claims

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Campgrounds in the East Kootenay could soon be sub-ject to more stringent rules.

On Friday, November 2, the Regional District of East Kootenay board of directors gave two readings to its new campground bylaw. There will be a series of public hear-ings around the region in the coming month, before it comes back to the board for third reading and adoption.

“Under the proposed bylaw, developers will be re-quired to apply for and obtain a campground permit before the construction of a new campground or the expansion of an existing facility is al-lowed,” explained communi-cations manager Loree Duc-zek.

The campground bylaw contains rules around water and sewer servicing require-ments, permitted structures and accessory uses (such as

concessions, swimming pools, mini golf and boat rent-al), garbage disposal and property boundary buffer re-quirements.

Under the proposed bylaw, campgrounds can’t be creat-ed on properties smaller than four hectares.

Each campsite must be at least 140 square metres, and each site can have one recre-ational vehicle, park model trailer or cottage, or up to three tents. Park model trail-

ers must be no longer than 50 square metres.

Campgrounds can have no more than 30 campsites per hectare. Up to 20 per cent of the campground can be sites with cottages, and those cot-tages must be smaller than 53.5 square metres.

To find out when and where a public hearing on the proposed campground bylaw will be held in your area, call the Regional District of East Kootenay at 250-489-2791.

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“Setting clover traps does not necessarily get the deer you want. That’s the issue. You are not going to solve the problem by setting clo-ver traps because you may not get the animal you think hurt that child,” for example, said White.

She said that a study found deer in clover traps suffer stress.

“Trapped deer expe-rience greater stress as a result of confinement, which causes more se-vere physiological per-turbations, and calls into question the use of (the word) humane in the use of clover traps,” said White.

What’s more, she added, because we live in the Rocky Moun-tains, more deer will move in to take the place of those that have been culled.

“You are not going to solve your problem be-cause you live in a wil-derness area where there are lots of deer. Deer are in town be-cause there is food and water and shelter. They are here for a reason,” said White.

The Animal Alliance of Canada recommends the city seek provincial permits to try “hazing” the deer, where herding dogs move the deer out of town, or sterilization. Public education is also key, White said.

“Such programs would also educate resi-dents about deer behav-

iour and provide tools to resolve conflict. The program might even in-clude a conflict resolu-tion hotline as part of the education and out-reach program.”

Councillor Angus Davis asked White and Barry MacKay what council is expected to say to a mother whose child is attacked by a deer in a hypothetical scenario.

“I would tell her to take the child to the hos-pital,” said MacKay. “I can’t categorically say there is no risk to your child, but I can say sta-tistically it is so very re-mote.”

Davis responded: “That’s not a very good answer.”

“You don’t think the child should be taken to the hospital?” said MacKay.

“That’s so crude,” said Councillor Davis.

Mayor Wayne Stetski explained to the pair that B.C. municipalities experiencing urban deer conflicts have asked the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Nat-ural Resource Opera-tions to provide clear direction on what they can and cannot do to address the deer prob-lem.

Stetski said that the report from the Animal Alliance of Canada will be presented to the city’s urban deer man-agement committee, and forwarded to the ministry.

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New rules for campgroundsRegional district set to adopt bylaw to regulate campgrounds

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AnnAlee Gr AntTownsman Staff

There isn’t a science fair in the world that can slow down Mount Baker Secondary School stu-dent Keltie Murdoch.

The Grade 12 student has taken on yet another hurdle – and cleared it – after being accepted out of 30 students across B.C. to attend the Taiwan International Science Fair in February 2013.

“I am really looking forward to the experi-ence of sharing my ideas with professionals and peers from all over the world, and hearing about what they’re work-ing on, or developing,” the East Kootenay Re-gional Science Fair (EKRSF) alum told the Townsman.

The B.C. team that will head to Taiwan was announced on October 26 at the Science Fair Foundation of BC (SFF BC) Innovation Explora-tion gathering at the Uni-versity of B.C.’s Museum of Anthropology. Keltie will be joined by Grade 10 student Kevala Von Volkenburg on Fort St. John on the trip.

“I feel very lucky to have been chosen. I know that each of the students that applied had just as much of a chance as I did,” Keltie said. “I am not sure what sets me apart from the other applicants, but I am prepared to take on the task of representing Canada in Taiwan.”

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Sandi Lavery in the foreground and Keltie Murdoch standing in the crowd at the Science Fair Foundation BC Innovation Exploration gathering at the Museum of Anthropology on October 26.

But Keltie isn’t the only Cranbrook resident heading to Asia to repre-sent her country. Her very own mentor and College of the Rockies program co-ordinator and instructor Sandi Lavery was chosen as the educator to accompany the B.C. pair.

Sandi said the last time an educator was chosen from this area was in 2003 when Judy Gadick from Creston traveled with students from Vancouver and Haida Gwaii.

Darcy Verbeurgt, chair of the EKRSF, said the Taiwan fair wel-comes students from the Pacific Rim, meaning

Mexico, Chile, the U.S. and B.C. in the Ameri-cas. Each country selects two representatives out of their top students that exemplify innovation and creativity.

“If you boil it down to the number of people who participate in fairs in B.C. every year, it’s a big deal,” he said. “It’s the cream de la cream.”

Both Keltie and Sandi may be going to the same event, but both will have very different expe-riences. Keltie will room with a homestay family and attend the fair, while Sandi will meet with the 18 other delegates and tour science facilities in Taiwan.

Sandi said she’s really excited to learn how other teachers around the world teach science. Her tour will take her to the Taiwanese National Science Centre and to the Taipei 101 – the high-est building in the world until 2010 when it was eclipsed by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Rather than view it as a tourist, the educators will get to learn all about the engi-neering side of the build-ing and how it was con-structed.

“They keep you really busy from what I hear,” Sandi said.

Keltie is looking for-ward to the international trip and meeting new

people along the way. “I’m excited to tour

the city of Taipei with both my delegation and the family that will be hosting me for part of my trip,” she said.

Verbeurgt said Keltie more than fits the bill for Canada’s representative, and it will be great expo-sure for her project.

“It just gives me shiv-ers to think what an awe-some experience it will be for her,” he said.

For Keltie, participat-ing in science fairs has been a great opportunity to learn from others.

“My favourite part of participating in science fairs is the judging and networking,” she said. “I

love having conversa-tions with like-minded people who are excited to talk to me and hear about my project.”

The local EKRSF is set for March 1 and 2, 2013, but there will be one fa-miliar face absent from the competition. Keltie has chosen to step back and move into a volun-teering role.

“This year I have de-cided to become active in volunteering for our regional fair,” she said. “I think it’s important for younger kids to have a role model close to their own age in something as necessary as science.”

Keltie’s life wouldn’t have been the same

without her entries into the EKRSF and Canada-Wide Science Fair the past few years, and she hopes her experience can help others.

“Being involved in these fairs has changed my life so much,” Keltie said. “I have been wait-ing for the opportunity to reach out to younger stu-dents who are curious about science and show them that science fairs open countless doors of opportunity for them to explore their interests, answer their questions, and learn to solve prob-lems.”

“I am hoping to be able to take time to go into schools and speak to classes to tell them more of what the science fair is about.”

Keltie also has anoth-er thing keeping her busy: the prospect of graduating in June has her furiously applying for universities, seeking scholarships and plan-ning her next step into post secondary life.

“I’m very proud of her,” Sandi said.

Once the trio return to B.C. with their stories and experiences, Sandi said their work is not done. The three will have to write a report on how to improve science, in-novation and technology in youth.

Keltie and Kevala have launched a fund-raising drive to help sup-port Team Canada on their trip to Taiwan. To see how you can help, contact Keltie at (250) 919-0340.

The East Kootenay Regional Science Fair will be held at the Col-lege of the Rockies on March 1 and 2 2013, and this year’s Canada-Wide Science Fair will take place in Lethbridge on May 11 through 18.

Mount Baker student Keltie

Murdoch, mentor Sandi

Lavery off to Taiwan

One of those differences will be far more accountabili-ty.

“We took the best of the old model,” Butler said. “But Destination BC will be run by a business board focused on fiduciary responsibility. There were some problems with the last couple of mod-els. The challenge in the cur-rent ministry model is that government staff was making marketing decisions.”

“We said ‘Look, we need to look at all the previous models and find what worked and what didn’t’,’” Butler said.

The board will be business led and made up of people who meet a certain skills ma-trix, Butler said.

“This is a business board that runs the organization, not necessarily all tourism people,” he said. “We might need someone with signifi-

cant understanding of finan-cial matters, we might need a lawyer, maybe someone with significant experience in board governance. Those are the type of skills we will be looking for.”

It’s a multi-million dollar corporation, he said, and must be managed as such.

Butler’s task force will identify likely prospects for the board and give the Minis-try 27 names from which a nine-person board will be created.

Destination BC more than just a remake, chair saysContinued from page 1 Funding will flow from

Destination BC to regional destination marketing orga-nizations (DMO) such as Kimberley-based Kootenay Rockies Tourism, Butler said. Regional DMOs will also have the opportunity to sit on another key piece of the new Crown corporation — a new Tourism Marketing Commit-

tee. Each region will provide three committee members.

“Funding for regional DMOs like Kootenay Rockies Tourism will flow down from Destination BC to the re-gions. That will be done in a transparent, contractual way. There will be a contract with expectations on both sides with annual and regular re-

porting.”So it is not in fact, a revival

of Tourism BC, but a new en-tity that the tourism industry has been working hard to achieve, Butler says.

“This is a huge step for-ward. We are very pleased. It’s a whole new level of mar-keting.”

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Courtesy Carolyn ZimiCh

The Grim Reaper’s book choice was entirely appropriate for silent reading period in Carolyn Zimich‘s Grade 2 class at Kootenay Orchards Elementary School prior to the school’s Halloween party. The Grim Reaper himself turned out to be Ethan DeGirolamo.

Sally MacDonalDTownsman Staff

Five years ago, the Regional District of East Kootenay pledged it would save us many greenhouse gas emis-sions as it spends by the time 2013 rolled around.

But last week, the board of directors de-cided to wait on the final step in achieving that goal.

In 2007, the Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) signed the Cli-mate Action Charter, pledging to be carbon neutral in 2012. It was joined by the Regional Districts of Kootenay Boundary and Central Kootenay and initiated the Carbon Neutral Koo-tenays (CNK) project.

At a governance committee meeting on Thursday, November 1, CNK project manager Dale Littlejohn gave the RDEK board of directors an overview of how the regional districts have worked towards carbon neutrality since 2007.

The Kootenay gov-ernments spend about $11 million a year on en-ergy – to heat buildings, power lights, and move their vehicles between 388 buildings and 995 vehicles.

Energy assessments in municipal buildings, wastewater treatment plants and recreation fa-cilities have saved the governments about $750,000 in energy sav-ings.

“We understand how much energy and emis-sions we’ve got, we’ve estimated the offset costs and total GHG emissions we have to take responsibility for. Now is the time we start thinking about green-house gas offsets,” said Littlejohn.

He explained that an offset is generated by a combination of reduc-ing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, avoid-ing GHG emissions, and sequestering GHG emis-sions.

Planning manager Andrew McLeod ex-plained to the board that after all of the energy savings, the RDEK still has to account for 730 tonnes of GHG emis-sions.

“In order to call our-selves carbon neutral and meet the Climate Action Charter commit-ment, the purchase of offsets is going to be necessary. If the board chooses not to pursue that, we can do any number of other things with that money in our community, but we will not be able to call our-selves carbon neutral and carry that designa-tion,” said McLeod.

In time, the regional district may be able to balance its emissions through community-based projects, such as energy efficient building retrofits, vehicle fuel switching, solar hot water, household organ-ic waste composting, and low emission vehi-cles. But the RDEK does not have those projects ready yet, and regard-less, they are unlikely to save enough GHGs to reach carbon neutrality.

“They are never going to achieve carbon neutrality for your gov-ernment. They are only going to help chip away at that total liability which for the regional district is 730 tonnes. So the purchasing of car-bon offsets is almost guaranteed to always be a requirement to achieve carbon neutral local government. That piece of the puzzle is always going to be there, it just depends how many ac-tions you can take along the way to reduce that total liability,” said McLeod.

Both Littlejohn and McLeod recommended that the board purchase carbon offsets at $25 per tonne, for a total of $18,250 in the Dark-woods conservation project near Creston. Then the regional dis-trict would be able to call itself carbon neutral for 2012.

“We are recommend-ing this for offsetting your 2012 emissions, and you would do that in spring 2013,” said Little-john. “This is a way to achieve carbon neutral-ity in the timeframe that local government has committed to, while keeping the money in the Kootenays.”

But the board was

split on the validity of purchasing carbon off-sets.

“I’m dead against buying offsets,” said Area A Director Mike Sos-nowski. “In my mind, it’s unreasonable that you put the money in the bank – you might as well burn it.”

He said that since the federal government isn’t committed to carbon neutrality, it seems un-reasonable for local gov-ernments to make the commitment. He said he would rather spend the $18,000 on local projects that would result in GHG emissions.

However, Invermere Director Gerry Taft pointed out that local projects would be much more expensive.

“In order to decrease the number of tons of carbon that the regional district needs to de-crease in order to be-come carbon neutral, it would cost a lot more money than $18,000 a year. I’m not sure for a $1 million project how many tonnes of carbon you can decrease, but it’s definitely going to be higher than $25 a tonne.”

Cranbrook Director Bob Whetham said it would take too long to identify a local project to offset this year’s carbon emissions.

“We’re not going to be able to chase around all over the region for something that’s going to give us the offsets we need to qualify. We are better off just dealing with the $18,000 and continuing to proceed with all the efforts we have, whether they qual-ify for eligibility or not, and just move on.”

Eventually, the board decided to wait before making a decision on purchasing carbon off-sets, to allow staff more time to identify East Kootenay projects for the investment.

But, according to McLeod, “the commit-ment we signed on to in 2007 when we signed the Climate Action Charter is to be carbon neutral in 2012. The time to do that is be-tween now and March when the offset pur-chase is required.”

A carbon neutral RDEK or not?

Regional District of East Kootenay may not be able to reach its goal of carbon neutrality by the end of 2012

Sally MacDonalDTownsman Staff

Cranbrook is taking the next step to make use of a $100,000 four-year grant for youth initia-tives from Columbia Basin Trust.

On Tuesday, November 13, community stakeholders will gather to prioritize a list of activi-ties to make Cranbrook more youth-friendly, then draft a job

Youth plan takes next stepCranbrook works out how to spend $100,000 in youth

funds from Columbia Basin Trust

description for a coordinator of the project.

The Cranbrook Project is an initiative of the Cranbrook Social Planning Council who have orga-nized two meetings already to determine how the CBT Com-munity Directed Youth Funds will be spent.

The program helps commu-nities set priorities for youth aged between 12 and 19.

A meeting led by CBT in Sep-tember brought out a lot of raw material, which will now be turned into a work plan, accord-ing to Dana Osiowy, chair of the Social Planning Council.

“We have a big pile of post-its of different activities people

wanted to do,” said Osiowy. “We are going to prioritize those and get together a team of youth am-bassadors; young people who can be the steering committee on the project.”

Once the work plan is drafted, it will be sent to CBT, who will evaluate it for the purposes of the Youth Funds then forward the money if they feel it fits the bill.

Members of the public who have an interest in how the youth funds are spent can attend the meeting on Tuesday, November 13 at 4 p.m. in the CBT board room at Clocktower Square.

To register, contact Dana at dana.osiowy@bigbrothersbigsis-ters.ca or phone 250-489-3111.

• In the article, “Act now on climate change, experts urge”, in the Tuesday, October 30 issue of the Townsman, Deborah Harford was mis-quoted. She actually said we will get warmer, wetter winters with more precipitation falling as rain, not snow, at lower elevations. We apologize for the error.

• Thanks to the vagaries of Mountain Stan-dard Time and its changes, the dates of the Winter Markets were printed as Nov. 20 and Dec. 1. The correct dates are Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. We also apologize for this error, and repeat, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.

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Victoria mayor Dean Fortin says he’s “flushed with pride’’ after a public toilet near the city’s Bas-tion Square was voted the best place to “go’’ in all of Canada when it comes to the call of nature.

The potty called the Langley Street Loo, fea-turing a stainless steel de-sign, unisex toilet and

exterior hand washing station, won the top spot in a poll conducted by Cintas Canada, a compa-ny that provides restroom supplies and other ser-vices.

A bathroom in Van-couver’s Georgian Court hotel took fourth place in the annual poll, while two Toronto restrooms came in second and third.

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I’ve got a bone to pick with the 20-somethings I know. Yeah, I’m one of them, and

while you’re pointing that out you can get off my lawn.

I’m sick and tired of seeing and hearing non-voting Canadians urge Americans to vote this way or that in their federal elec-tion. Every time I see it, which in the days leading up to this week’s election has been more often than I’d like, I shake my head and get a little more annoyed.

Has it occurred to any of these people, that if they spent just a fraction of the time they spend promoting an American candidate or criticizing that person’s op-ponent, that they could be getting informed on the go-ings on in their very own country?

Yes, believe it or not, Canada has a head of state. His name is Stephen Harper, he represents the Conservative Party of Canada. The NDP rocketed into the op-position party seat last election for the first time ever, with Thomas Mulcair now at the helm. We also have the Liberal Party, rep-resented by Bob Rae at the moment but interesting things are boiling over there thanks to the re-introduction of that very famous “T” word, Trudeau. And then there is a very interesting lady named Elizabeth May who historically won the first seat for the Green Party last election.

Do you know where any of these peo-

ple stand on the issues that are important to you? Or do you care more about Mitt Romney’s thoughts on abortion, or Obama’s birth certificate?

I don’t care where you stand on Cana-dian politics, I just want you to stand somewhere.

Our country’s youth voter turnout is embarrassingly low. Our last federal elec-tion had only 38.8 per cent of eligible vot-ers between the ages of 18 and 24 cast their ballot.

And while we all snicker about the politics going on south of the border like we’re better, America’s youth are besting us year after year.

In America, 51 per cent of voters between the ages of 18 and 29 voted for ei-

ther Barack Obama or John McCain in 2008. That is out of 46 million eligible youth voters in the U.S.

I’m in a unique position as a 24-year-old Canadian. I happen to be the girlfriend of a very lovely American, and through that relationship I have become friends with many other wonderful Americans all over the country.

You want to know what my American friends did today? They voted. One even got in line at 6:30 a.m. to exercise his democratic right. I don’t know who he voted for, nor do I care particularly be-cause it is his country, not mine. The fact is he took the opportunity and did it.

The truth is, the outcome of the Ameri-can election does have an impact on Can-ada, and I do have an opinion on who I would prefer to win but I do not have a vote in the American election, therefore who I think should win has no bearing on the outcome. You know what has an even bigger impact on Canada and my life? The person who is our own prime minister.

We have elections just like the Ameri-cans. And you know what? We even have a provincial one coming right up in May. That election will actually effect your daily life more than Obama or Romney ever will in your entire life time.

If eligible voters in Canada who are so busy squawking about the American elec-tion put just a few minutes into criticizing our own leaders, they just might find out there’s a few things worth a Facebook post or a conversation or two.

They might even find it — gasp! — in-teresting!

I love my country — in fact I love it so much that I was one of those 38.8 per cent who took the 10 minutes to vote in 2011. Man, am I ever tired of Canadian youth rambling on about American politics when they can’t even take a second to fig-ure out if they agree with what’s happen-ing on our side of the border.

I would fall over backwards in shock if I ever saw an actual line up at a Canadian polling station.

Annalee Grant is a reporter with the Cranbrook Daily Townsman

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So we just got Hallowe’en out of the way and here comes Christmas. Christmas gift shows, Christmas

craft sales, Christmas baking sales, Christ-mas concerts all happening during Novem-ber. Was it always like this, I wonder, or have the seasons just speeded up as I got older? There are a couple of good plays coming up in Cranbrook this month, too, along with the usual wide variety of other entertaining and educational events. Enjoy!

Wednesday, November 7Tai Chi Mediation

Tai Chi Moving Meditation takes place today and every Wednesday from 3 to 4 p.m. at Centre 64. For more information call Adele at 250-427-1939.

ESL Tutors NeededColumbia Basin Alli-

ance for Literacy needs vol-unteers for one-to-one ESL and Adult Literacy tutor-ing. A free 2-day training session will be held during November.

If you are interested in becoming a tutor or learn-ing more about improving your own lan-guage skills contact CBAL Kimberley Lit-eracy Coordinator, Kim Roberts at 250-427-4468 or email kroberts@thehub.litera-cy.bc.ca.

Library ShowcaseThe display in the Cranbrook Public Li-

brary showcase for the month of Novem-ber is of needlework by Dorothy Siler.

Thursday, November 8The Perfect Gift Exhibit

Cranbrook and District Arts Council’s Christmas exhibit, ‘The Perfect Gift – Christmas Opportunities’, opens today at the Artrageous Gallery at 135 10th Avenue South and runs until December 5. It fea-tures art, jewellery, and pottery gift items. A reception will be held on Friday, Novem-ber 16 from 7 to 9 p.m. to which everyone is welcome.

Friday, November 9Sculpting Pokemon

Today’s Creative Kids After School Arts Program at Centre 64 offer sculpting min-iature Pokemons out of fimo. The fee is $10, materials included. For more informa-tion and to register call Christine at 250-427-4919 or email kimberleyarts@telus.net.

Altitude AdjustmentAltitude Adjustment at The Edge Pub

tonight features Hurricane Baker, Pete Wilde, Lix, Just Jed, Paradigm Theorem!, Sinthetik Creatures, and Cooper Oversauc-ing. The cover charge is just $5.

Saturday, November 10Minkha Sweater Sale

The annual Minkha hand-knitted sweater sale will be held today at Christ Church Anglican from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. All proceeds of the sale are returned to the Bolivian women who knit them. Custom orders within the range of petite to XXL can be made. For more information call 250-489-4528 or email beurskensaa@shaw.ca.

Meet the ArtisansMarysville Artisan Gallery invites you to

meet the artisans today between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. when there will be Christmas goodies to sample, door prizes to be drawn, and locally made arts and crafts on sale.

Christmas Crafts & ThingsA Christmas Crafts & Things market will

be held at the Elko Community Hall today

from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Vendor space is available for $15 a table + a door prize. To book a table email: southcountry@xplor-net.com or contact Phyllis at 250-529-7418.

Tuesday, November 13Barney Bentall

Canadian pop/rock/folk singer Barney Bentall performs at the Key City Theatre at 7.30 p.m. this evening. Tickets are $35 plus HST. For tickets call the KCT box-office at 250-426-7006.

Wednesday, November 14Affordable Art

Opening today and running until De-cember 20 at Key City Gallery will be the annual Affordable Art show in which all artworks are priced at no more than $300. Artists may drop off artwork for the show at noon today. An opening public reception

will be held on Saturday, November 17 from 12 noon to 3 p.m.

Nature ParkTonight at 7 p.m. the

Kimberley Nature Park So-ciety will hold its AGM at the Kimberley Nordic Cen-tre Clubhouse with guest

speaker: Nigel Kitto speaking on Recreat-ing in the Nature Park. Everyone is wel-come to attend and refreshments will be served.

Friday, November 16Blacksmithing Class

The second in the series of Blacksmith-ing classes at Fort Steele Heritage Town takes place today and tomorrow. It covers tool crafting and the fee is $165. For more information and to register call Henry at 250-420-7197.

The Magic of ChristmasThe Magic of Christmas artisan market

takes place today from 3 to 8 p.m. and to-morrow from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Bootleg Golf Clubhouse, offering handcrafted and home-baked items by local artisans along with food and beverage service. For more information call Elke at 250-427-3209.

Ceramic ArtToday in the Creative Kids After School

Art Program from 2.30 to 4.30 p.m. at Cen-tre 64 participants will learn skills of ce-ramic art with traditional clay. The fee is $10, materials included. For more informa-tion and to register call Christine at 250-427-4919 or email kimberleyarts@telus.net.

Steel MagnoliasOpening tonight at 8 p.m. in the Stage

Door theatre, Cranbrook Community The-atre will perform the dramatic comedy ‘Steel Magnolias’, the play about love, friendship, pain and charm set in a south-ern U.S. hairdressing shop that was made into a classic movie of the same name. It continues tomorrow night and on Novem-ber 21 to 24 and 28 to 30, closing on De-cember 1. Directed by Bob McCue, the cast features Susan Hanson, Michelle McCue, Kirsten Kasner, Elizabeth Ross, Joanne Wilkinson, and Hannah Van der Roost. Tickets are $13 for CCT members/$15 non-members, available at Lotus Books.

Saturday, November 17Collage: Playtime for Adults

Today and tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Kimberley Arts at Centre 64 Creston mixed media artist Win Dinn will lead a workshop on painting and collage. The fee for this two-day workshop is $150 + HST ($137.50 + HST for Kimberley Arts Council members). You can check out Win Dinn’s work at www.windinnart.blogspot.ca. For more information and to register call 250-

Hot on the heels of Halloween...UPCOMING2012 FREE PUBLIC SWIM Wednesday, November 7th, 5:00-6:00 PM is sponsored by Chateau Kimberley.Exhibit “The Perfect Gift – Christmas Opportunities” runs Nov. 8th to Dec. 5th. Art, jewellery, pottery, or something one of a kind - stop by the CDAC Art Gallery for your holiday shopping. Reception held on Friday, Nov. 16th, 7 to 9pm at CDAC Art Gallery at 135 10 Avenue S (corner of 2nd St. and 10th Ave. S)Saturday, Nov 10: annual Minkha sweater sale - hand knitted by Bolivian women - held at Christ Church Anglican from 10am to 5pm. More info: 250-489-4528 or email beurskensaa@shaw.caNov.14 Kimberley Garden Club is back on winter sessions. Nov. program: Hands on Evergreen Centrepiece construction. Selkirk High School Library 7-9 pm. New members welcome. FMI: Nola 250-427-1948.Kimberley Nature Park Society Meeting on Wednesday, Nov 14 at 7:00 pm at the Kimberley Nordic Centre Clubhouse. Guest Speaker: Nigel Kitto. Topic: Recreating in the Nature Park. All Welcome! Refreshments Served!Fort Steele Cemetery Society Meeting, Wed. Nov 14, 10am at Superstore Community Room. Visitors welcome.BC Government Retired Employees Association, Rocky Mtn Branch, will be holding their luncheon meeting at the Bavarian Chalet in the Sam Steele Room, Nov. 14th at 12 noon. Guest speaker; R.C.M.P. Const. Lisa Schlatter. FMI: 489-5930 Jack Selman.Cranbrook Community Theatre is proud to present Steel Magnolias. Directed by Bob McCue, the play runs for 10 nights, November 16 & 17, November 21-24, November 28-30 and December 1, at The Stage Door, Cranbrook. Tickets at Lotus Books.’The Marysville School PAC is pleased to host the 5th Annual Fall Craft & Trade Fair on Saturday, November 17th from 10:00 to 3:00 pm in the school gym. Crafts, unique gifts, portrait sittings, kid’s corner and more! Call Lisa @ (250)427.4651, FMI or to book table.Cranbrook United Church; Tea, Bake & Craft Sale will be held Saturday, Nov. 17, 2:00-4:00pm, at 2-12th Ave. S. Everyone welcome.Social dance returns to the Cranbrook Seniors Hall on November 17th for a second season. Enjoy the well known and loved music of ‘Old Spice’ with your friends and family from 7-11. Refreshments are served. Call 250-489-2720.

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ONGOINGCranbrook Quilters’ Guild hold their meetings on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays each month at 7:15 pm upstairs in Seniors Hall, 125-17th Ave. S. All skill levels welcome. FMI Betty 250-489-1498 or June 250-426-8817.Cranbrook Branch of the Stroke Recovery Association of BC. Meetings are from 10:00am-1:00pm the 2nd and 4th Wed. in the lower level of the Senior Citizen’s Hall, 125-17th St. S. Bring bag lunch. Tootie Gripich, 426-3994.KIMBERLEY North Star Quilters meet 2nd and 4th Monday of each month at 7pm downstairs Centennial Hall, 100 4th Avenue. Everyone welcome. Info: Carol at 250-427-7935 or Joan at 250-427-4046.The Cranbrook Senior Floor Curling is looking for new members. Curling is Monday and Wednesday afternoons, upstairs in the Curling Rink. Info: Dave at 250-426-5387.Cranbrook Senior Centre, Branch 11 holding their meetings every third Thursday a month. 1:30pm at the hall. We always welcome new members.Do you have 2 hours every 2 months to give? E.K. Senior Caregivers Network is seeking new members for the policy making Board of our non-pro� t organization. Call Louise 250-426-2362.Play and Learn Parenting/Literacy Program – 8 week registered program for parents with preschool children with a facilitated play and activity component for children. Kimberley Early Learning Centre Kim 250-427-4468.StrongStart BC - FREE family drop-in program for preschool-aged children accompanied by a parent. Kimberley Early Learning Centre. Activities include circle time, play centers, nutritious snack and active play. Monday 9 - 12, Tuesday 9 - 12, Thursday 9 – 12, Friday 9 - 12. Gina 250-427-5309. Treehouse—Families with children 5 & under are invited to come play. Free drop-in program in gym of Kimberley Early Learning Centre. Transportation avail. Tuesdays, 9:00 - 12:00. Diana 250-427-0716.Canadian Cancer Society- if you have spare time and would like to volunteer, interested applicants can call 250-426-8916, drop by our o� ce at #19-9th Avenue S, Cranbrook or go to www.� ghtwithus.ca and register as a volunteer.ICBL-Duplicate Bridge–Senior Center in Cranbrook. Mon & Wed 7pm, Thurs & Fri 1pm at Scout Hall, Marysville. Info: Maggie 250-417-2868.Tai Chi Moving Meditation every Wednesday 3-4 pm at Centre 64. Starts November 7th. Call Adele 250-427-1939.

eye on entertainment

Mike Redfern

Submitted

The tight bonds of friendship and family are featured in Cranbrook Community Theatre’s production of “Steel Magno-

lias”. Directed by Bob McCue, “Steel Magno-

lias” follows Truvy (Susan Hanson) who runs a beauty parlour out of her house.  One of her valued clients, M’Lynn (Michelle McCue) has a daughter (Kirsten Kasner) who suffers through the trials and tribula-tions of being a newly  married diabet-ic. Throw in a couple of old biddies, Clairee (Elizabeth Ross) and Ouiser (Joanne Wilkin-son) for comic effect and add in a poor in-nocent young hairdresser (Hannah Van der Roest) who doesn’t know what to make of all of this.  

“Steel Magnolias is a great play with a widespread following. It has great emotion-al impact and this project gave me an op-portunity to work with six of the finest ac-tresses in the area,” said McCue. “The rela-tionship between the actresses is very spe-cial.  They’ll make you laugh and they’ll make you cry -bring Kleenex!”

“Steel Magnolias” opens on Friday, Nov. 16, and McCue hinted there may be a “Bleeding Armadillo Cake” at the opening night reception. The show runs Nov 16-17, 21-24, and Nov. 28-Dec 1. Tickets are now available at Lotus Books.

After “Steel Magnolias,” CCT is present-ing “It’s a Wonderful Life,” opening Dec 7, followed by “Enchanted April,” in April, 2013. CCT’s production of “Our Town” will now be presented in May, 2014.

CCT has been entertaining Cranbrook and area audiences for over 50 years. We strive to promote and develop local talent; on stage, behind the scenes, or in the direc-tor’s chair.  CCT believes theatre, music, dance, and art play an important part in the community. We are pleased to call the Stu-dio/Stage Door home.

Southern charm and determination combine

in ‘Steel Magnolias’

427-4919.Up-Cycling Fashion Camp

Kimberley Arts Council today offers the first of two workshops for children aged 9 to 14 years, Upcycling Fashion Camp, in which second hand clothing items will be trans-formed into fashion garments. The workshop runs from 1 to 5 p.m. The second Up-cycling Fashion Camp will take place on November 24 and the fee to attend both camps is $40 plus costs of materials. For more information and to register call 250-427-4349.

Tea, Bake & Craft SaleCranbrook United Church will host a Tea,

Bake & Craft Sale today from 2 to 4 p.m. at the church on 12th Avenue South. Everyone is welcome.

Christmas FairKimberley Sacred Heart Church will hold

its Christmas Fair in the church hall today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., featuring home baking, preserves, crafts, books, and gift items as well as a door prize and refreshments. Everyone is welcome.

Tea & Bake SaleThe Mt. Zion Lutheran Church ladies will

host a Tea & Bake Sale today from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the church on the corner of 11th Street and 11th Avenue South. Everyone is wel-come.

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TRE VOR CR AWLEYSports Editor

It’s the month of November, but if you ask any member of the male community out there, they’ll tell you that it’s actually Mo-vember.

It’s only the differ-ence of one consonant, but it means all the world to guys who are taking the time to grow out their moustaches to raise awareness for prostate cancer.

The Kootenay Ice are all in with their fa-cial hair efforts, as the team has signed onto Movember.com to raise money and awareness for men’s

health programs across the country.

Anyone can visit the website and make a donation for any mem-ber of the squad.

So far, the team has added roughly $1,600 to the cause, with rook-ie netminder Wyatt Hoflin leading the way, with $350 to his name.

Ice defenceman Jag-ger Dirk has yet to get any donations to his name, but the 19-year-old blueliner is still having fun with the moustache competi-tion.

“It brings us togeth-er, it’s for a good cause,” said Dirk. “A lot of peo-ple have family mem-

bers that’ve had pros-tate cancer so it’s good to support something bigger than us.”

Fellow blueliner Mike Simpson agreed.

“It’s a good time and everyone has fun with it,” Simpson said. “It’s all the better if it’s for a good cause.

“Obviously anytime you can raise money, it’s a good thing.”

Both were inter-viewed separately, however, both pegged 19-year-old forward Erik Benoit as the teammate who could grow the most impres-sive moustache.

“It’s not the best, but it’s pretty greasy,”

said Dirk.Simpson also sin-

gled out Benoit as the guy who could grow the best moustache after hesitating for a bit when first asked.

“Besides myself, I’d have to give it to…geez I don’t know. We really have a young team,” Simpson said.

“Probably Benny. I would say he’s the early favourite. We got a lot of baby faces in there.”

Why?“The guy’s just a

man-child,” Simpson added. “He’s got the ability to grow a full beard, probably since the day he was born.”

Benoit wasn’t at practice on Tuesday, and couldn’t defend his moustache-grow-ing abilities, or brag about it, depending on one’s perspective.

The team will be ac-cepting donations for the rest of the month. The Ice are part of the fundraising efforts along with the rest of the WHL and the entire CHL, which raised $128,222 in last year’s campaign.

Anyone wishing to make a donation to-wards the Kootenay Ice’s Movember efforts can visit: http://ca.mo-v e m b e r . c o m /team/620241

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After months of hard training, 12 competitors took off for Brighton, England on September 30th for the Internation-al Taekwon-Do Federa-tion World Cup.

There they had a few days to train and adjust to the time and altitude changes.

The World Cup began on the 4th of Oc-tober with weigh-ins, a stressful event on its

own, as athletes don’t want to travel that dis-tance and not make the weight category, but the local competitors went through without a prob-lem.

Up came the draws and Master Sant Saran got his students pre-pared for the days ahead with short train-ing sessions and verbal reassurance, it was time to put months of hard work to the test.

Day one the black belts had their pattern competition where Catherine Bewski was awarded a Bronze metal.

The colour belts sparred on the first day of competition, Mar-lene Turchyn was awarded a bronze medal for her efforts in the ring. All of the stu-dents did very well and represented the team and Canada in a sports-

manlike fashion.The next day was re-

versed, colour belt pat-terns and Black Belt sparing.

The 12-14 year black belt boys competition went on for 5 hours and the competition was fierce, Kootenay Tae-kwon Do’s Brett Carter took a Bronze metal in this event. Later on in the day Catherine Be-wski was awarded a sil-ver medal in sparring in

her ladies division. Looking back at the

results, six of our mem-bers took a loss to the fighter that won Gold or Silver, which is an im-pressive feat for the Cranbrook, Elk Valley and Crowsnest compet-itors. We have world class clubs in our com-munity and we have shown we can compete with the rest of the world and be very suc-cessful.

Ice growing mo’s for Movember campaign

Fehr expresses optimism prior to

restarting CBA negotiations

CHRIS JOHNSTONCanadian Press

NEW YORK - As the NHL and NHL Players’ Association resumed bargaining for the first time in more than two weeks, Donald Fehr ex-pressed optimism that the sides were ready to start working towards a deal.

“The players view has always been that we ought to keep negotiat-ing until we find a way to get an agreement,” the NHLPA’s executive director said Tuesday. “You sort of stay at it day by day - so it’s very good to be getting back to the table. We hope that this time it produc-es more progress that we’ve seen in the past and we can figure out a way to make an agree-ment and to get the game back on the ice as soon as possible.”

The talks again went underground with the parties meeting at an undisclosed location.

However, Fehr agreed to meet with re-porters about 90 min-utes before negotia-tions resumed. It was the first formal session between the sides since Oct. 18 and Fehr ex-pressed hope that it would be the start of a push to end the lock-out.

“We’re hopeful that we’ll start bargaining and we’ll continue bar-gaining until we find a way to make a deal,” he said.

A number of players and owners made their way to New York for the meetings. Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sid-ney Crosby was among 13 NHLPA members to take part after making a

“last minute” decision to fly in.

The session came just days after deputy commissioner Bill Daly and NHLPA special counsel Steve Fehr held an informal meeting that spanned several hours in a secret loca-tion. Donald Fehr indi-cated that those discus-sions, which started Saturday afternoon and stretched into early Sunday morning, were “productive.”

“Sometimes you’ve got to get together in a forum and figure out lo-gistically how to go for-ward,” he said.

The negotiations ap-pear to have reached a critical juncture and the sides are hoping prog-ress can be made away from the media spot-light. When asked for a comment about the up-coming talks on Mon-day, Daly told The Ca-nadian Press he had decided to remain quiet until the meetings were over.

The biggest issue the sides have to bridge a gap on is the mecha-nism that would see all existing contracts hon-oured in full, even after the players’ overall share in revenue is re-duced to 50 per cent from its current posi-tion of 57 per cent. A “make whole” provi-sion in the NHL’s Oct. 16 offer attempted to do that, but the NHLPA didn’t like that deferred payments would count against the earning po-tential of future players.

The league has since indicated a willingness to see owners assume more of the liability. However, Fehr was quick to note there was more to be decided.

“There are still other things that are impor-tant,” he said.

Among the changes suggested by the NHL are a five-year cap on all deals, entry-level contracts that last two years instead of three and unrestricted free agency beginning at age 28 or after eight years of service.

“We’re hopeful that we’ll start bargaining

and we’ll continue bargaining until we

find a way to make a deal.”

Donald Fehr

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SportS

ICE CHIPS: The KOOTENAY ICE enter this week’s action with a 4-11-1-0 record (3-10-1-0 at home, 1-3-0-0 on the road, 1-1-0 in over-time) and in sixth place in the CENTRAL DIVISION...The ICE will play three of their next four games

at home before traveling to the US DIVISION (November 21-24).

MOVEMBER: The KOOTENAY ICE players are taking part in MOVEMBER...Fans can log on to www.movember.com and search KOOTENAY ICE to visit the team page and donate...Last year, the CANADIAN HOCKEY LEAGUE raised a total of $128,222 towards PROSTATE CANCER CANADA and MOVEM-BER .

SUPER SEVEN FLEX PAKS: SUPER SEVEN FLEX PAKS are now available to purchase at the ICE Office…You get seven game certificates to use at your convenience – total flexibili-ty...The first 100 FLEX PAKS purchases will receive a golf voucher for WILDSTONE to be used during the 2013 golf sea-son…SUPER SEVEN FLEX PAKS are available in Adult, Senior, Student and Youth packages...Adults are $133.00, Seniors $105.00, Students $91.00 and Youth $70.00.

PEPSI KIDS CLUB: Registration for the PEPSI KIDS CLUB is underway…Kids from five to 12 can sign up to be part of the KIDS CLUB and receive a punch card to attend eight games for only $5.00…The events this year will including skating, tobog-ganing, and a movie…Cost for each kid is $17.00 and forms are available at the Kootenay ICE Office…Registration dead-

line is Tuesday, November 6.DID YOU KNOW: SAM REINHART has been named to TEAM

WHL for the SUBWAY SUPER SERIES vs. RUSSIA on November 14 in VANCOUVER...AUSTIN VETTERL recorded his first assist with KOOTENAY against VANCOUVER on November 3...ZACH MCPHEE recorded his first assist with the ICE on November 2 against SASKATOON...BROCK MONTGOMERY played in his 200th WHL career game against the BLADES on November 2.

TRANSACTIONS / INJURIES: KOOTENAY acquired 18-year-old Forward AUSTIN VETTERL from the VANCOUVER GIANTS in exchange for 1995 born prospects KYLE KRABBEN (Defense-man) and DOUGLAS MORRIS (Forward) on November 1...The ICE acquired 19-year-old Forward ZACH MCPHEE from the EVERETT SILVERTIPS in exchange for a conditional seventh round draft pick in the 2014 WHL Bantam Draft on November 2...LUKE PHILP will be out of the KOOTENAY line up indefi-nitely after having his appendix removed on October 27...ERIK BENOIT will be out of the ICE line up one to two weeks with a lower body injury.

ONE YEAR AGO: After 16 games of the 2011-2012 season the ICE were 11-3-0-2, after 17 games were 12-3-0-2 and after 18 games were 12-3-1-2.

UPCOMING COMMUNITY EVENT:-Poppy Campaign, November 6 from 9 - 3 pm all over the

City. Members of the team will be helping the Poppy Cam-paign pick up wreaths at businesses

-Pepsi Kids Club Skate, November 7 from 4:45-5:45 pm at Western Financial Place. The team will be skating with all the members of the Pepsi Kids Club. To sign up visit the Kootenay ICE Office.

-Poppy Campaign, November 9 from 9 - 3 pm all over the City. Members of the team will be helping the Poppy Cam-paign pick up wreaths at businesses

UPCOMING WEEK:

Tuesday November 6 Practice 3:45 – 5:45 pm Western Fi-nancial Place

Wednesday November 7 Practice 3:45 – 5:45 pm Western Financial Place

Thursday November 8 Practice 3:45 – 5:45 pm Western Fi-nancial Place

Friday November 9 Practice 3:45 – 5:45 pm Western Finan-cial Place

Saturday November 10 ICE vs Moose Jaw 7:00 pm (102.9 FM – The Drive)

Sunday November 11 Practice 11:00 – 1:00 pm Western Fi-nancial Place

Monday November 12 ICE @ Calgary 7:00 pm (102.9 FM – The Drive)

WEEK IN REVIEW:Friday, November 2 – Kootenay 2 vs Saskatoon 3 - OT – Re-

cord 4-9-1-0 – Attendance: 2,310Goals:1 - Boyd (2) from McPhee and Descheneau2 - Benoit (3) from Muth and DirkGoalie: Wyatt Hoflin (17 Saves, 2 GA)Saturday, November 3 – Kootenay 3 vs Vancouver 6 – Re-

cord 4-10-1-0 – Attendance: 2,330Goals:1 - Martin (3) from Cable2 - O’Connor (2) from Leach3 - Reinhart (4) from VetterlGoalies: Wyatt Hoflin (13 Saves, 4 GA), Mackenzie Skapski (9

Saves, 2 GA)Sunday, November 4 – Kootenay 1 @ Medicine Hat 3 – Re-

cord 4-11-1-0 – Attendance: 4,006Goal:1 - Reinhart (5) from DescheneauGoalie: Mackenzie Skapski (33 Saves, 2 GA)

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KERAVA, Finland - Jayna Hefford had two goals to reach a scoring milestone and Shannon Szabados made 20 saves as Canada opened the Four Nations Cup with a 6-0 victory over Finland on Tuesday.

Jennifer Wakefield, Rebecca Johnston, Hay-ley Wickenheiser and Meghan Agosta-Marcia-no also scored for Cana-da, which dumped the host side 8-1 in an exhi-bition tuneup two days earlier. Hefford’s second goal was the 150th of her national team career.

“It’s a phenomenal feat,” said head coach Dan Church. “She’s just a true professional. Her talents around the net and just the nose for the puck, and really how hard she works off the

puck I think are the keys to her success as a goal scorer.”

Canada’s roster for the Four Nations in-cludes almost all the players from the team that won gold at the 2012 world championship. Canada rolled four effec-tive lines at Kerava Aree-na and fired 53 shots at netminder Isabella Port-noj.

“We just wanted to get a good strong start to this tournament,” Hefford said. “We know we have to get better from here on out.”

The Finns have never beaten Canada in wom-en’s hockey.

Canada will next face the defending champion Americans on Wednes-day before meeting Swe-den on Friday. The medal games are Satur-

day. The Americans blanked Sweden 4-0 on Tuesday.

The U.S. is the de-fending Four Nations champion, beating the Canadians 4-3 in a shoot-out last year in Sweden. Hefford and her team-mates are excited to play the Americans again.

“It’s always the game we look forward to play-ing,” Hefford said. “It’s an intense rivalry but it’s fun. It brings out the best in us and I think it does in them. We’re going to be ready to go tomorrow.”

Canada has won the event 12 times in the 16-year history of the tour-nament. The event also serves as an evaluation opportunity for team brass ahead of the 2013 world championship in Ottawa this April.

“I think we’re hungry

to prove that we can be a dominant team again,” Church said. “Every op-portunity we look for-ward to playing the U.S. To win the world cham-pionship last year in Ver-mont was a great step forward but we also had some pretty big losses over the course of the year.

“There’s definitely room for improvement for our team. So I think this tournament is a great opportunity for us to come in and show them that we are the team that they saw in the finals and we’re going to put forward a very physi-cal, fast, and a good team game.”

Canada last won the Four Nations Cup in 2010, defeating the Americans 3-2 in over-time.

Canada beats Finland 6-0 to open Four Nations tournament

Canadian Soccer Association names new technical directorbeen considered.

“We believe as an or-ganization that Tony has the knowledge and experience to have an immediate impact on the development of the sport in our country,” he said.

Montopoli said the job needed someone who understands the “uniqueness of the Ca-nadian soccer culture.”

“Tony is the right

man for the job,” he added.

Fonseca, a former Portuguese internation-al who played for Benfi-ca, stressed that the re-cent World Cup loss qualifying loss in Hon-duras - which he called “a very painful result for all of us” - should not serve as the face of Ca-nadian soccer.

Canada was ranked 61st in the world by

FIFA prior to the No-vember rankings, ex-pected out Wednesday.

“There’s a lot of good things that have been done in terms of the Ca-nadian Soccer Associa-tion and soccer in gen-eral,” he said. “Obvious-ly the problem is deeper than one result, one game.”

“But that’s not a clear indication of where we are in football,” he

added, referring to the Honduras game. “It’s just a freaky result that left all of us with a very sour taste and we want to erase it as fast as pos-sible and move for-ward.”

He said determining the best way to work with the pro clubs for the mutual benefit of both parties is an urgent priority. “Addressing the grassroots” is another.

NEIL DAVIDSONCanadian Press

TORONTO - Canadi-an soccer’s newly ap-pointed technical direc-tor knows what he is getting into.

As assistant coach with the men’s national team, Tony Fonseca lit-erally had a front-row seat on Canada’s humil-iating exit from World Cup qualifying last month in Honduras.

The former Portu-guese international has also coached Canada’s under-20, under-23, and Francophone Games teams.

Fonseca’s new job is essentially to chart the course of Canadian soc-cer, “in charge of setting a vision for all aspects of the game,” according to the Canadian Soccer As-sociation.

That includes edu-cating coaches and de-veloping players, from pre-teens to elite play-ers.

There have been no shortage of good inten-tions and blueprints in the past in the CSA, but Canadian soccer has lit-tle to show for it outside of high participation numbers and a compet-itive women’s side.

The 47-year-old Fon-seca acknowledged there is much to do, in-cluding trying to bring together what is widely perceived to be a frac-tured soccer landscape.

“This is not just one layer of the problem,” he told a conference call

Tuesday. “There’s many layers but definitely we want to continue to work with the provinces, with the stake-holders, the pro clubs and the academies, and defi-nitely find the solutions needed to forward the game in Canada.”

The CSA still has to appoint a men’s nation-al team coach in the wake of Stephen Hart’s resignation last month.

The two jobs are very different. The technical director looks down the road while the national team coach is only as good as his last result.

Early feedback on the choice of Fonseca was positive.

“Fantastic appoint-ment,” Paul Mariner, To-ronto FC’s manager and director of soccer opera-tions, said by email from a European scouting trip.

“A good guy,” said Vancouver Whitecaps president Bob Lenar-

duzzi. “And having come up through the Portuguese system and being a part of Benfica, I think he has a pretty good idea of what it takes to develop play-ers.”

“A very conscien-tious football mind,” said Bjorn Osieck, the outgoing executive di-rector of the B.C. Soccer Association. “Some-body who is not afraid to point out inconve-nient truths, but does it in a way not to alienate people.”

The post of technical director has been va-cant since Hart left it to take over as national team coach in Decem-ber 2009. Hart, who be-came technical director in March 2008, stepped down last month as coach in the wake of the 8-1 loss in Honduras.

The Vancouver-based Fonseca hinted that Hart could still play a role, saying it would be a shame not to use his experience.

Peter Montopoli, general secretary of the CSA, said the job of technical director was handled by committee prior to Fonseca’s ap-pointment.

Montopoli said more than 30 people applied for the job. He declined to name the shortlist but asked about Sylvie Beliveau, he confirmed that the CSA’s long-term player development manager and former women’s coach has

“A very conscientious football mind.

Somebody who is not afraid to point out inconvenient

truths, but does it in a way to not alienate

people. ”Bjorn Osieck B.C. Soccer Association

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Fall Trade & Craft FairMarysville Elementary School

Parent Advisory Council will host the 5th Annual Fall Trade & Craft Fair in the school gym from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today, featuring businesses, crafts, and gift booths and door prizes, draws, and a con-cession with a kid’s corner offering crafts, face painting and tattoos while parents shop. To book a table, contact Lisa Cox at 250-427-4651 or email joelisa@telus.net by November 2nd.

Seniors’ Social DanceSocial dance returns to the

Cranbrook Seniors’ Hall for a sec-ond season tonight when Old Spice will provide the dancing music from 7 to 11 p.m. Refresh-ments will be served and admis-sion is just $10. Everyone is wel-come to attend. For more informa-tion call 250-489-2720.

Sage Grass at CreeksideSage Grass will be playing to-

night, starting around 7.30 p.m., at BJ’s Creekside Pub.

Sunday, November 18Alison Brown at KCT

Grammy award-winning banjo virtuoso Alison Brown and her bluegrass/jazz fusion quartet, fea-turing John R. Burr (piano/key-boards), Garry West (bass) and Kendrick Freeman (drums), will be performing at the Key City The-atre this evening at 7.30 p.m. Opening for Alison will be Crest-on’s Elena Yeung. Tickets are $35 + HST, available at the KCT box-of-fice or by calling 250-426-7006.

Monday, November 19Hip Hop Violinist

The Cranbrook Violin Club presents hip hop violinist Lindsey Stirling tonight at 7 p.m. at the Key City Theatre. Tickets are $20, avail-able from the KCT box-office or from the Cranbrook Violin Club at 250-417-9543.

Tuesday, November 20Mongolia Travelogue

You are invited to ford flooded rivers, climb glaciers in snow storms, trek with camels and swat flies from the comfort of your chair at a travelogue Exploring Mongo-lia with Gretchen Whetham pre-sented by the Friends of the Cran-brook Library this evening at 7 p.m. in the College of the Rockies lecture theatre. Admission is by donation.

Wednesday, November 21Dr. Gabor Maté

Physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté will speak at the Heritage Inn tonight from 7.30 to 9.30 p.m. on fostering health in a stressed soci-ety. Admission is $40. Tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. he will give a presentation on ADD and addic-tions. Admission is $60. Both pre-sentations may be attended for $90. Tickets are available from Lotus Books. For more informa-tion go to www.LifeRootsConsult-ing.com.

Gorilla TrekAllister and Denise Pederson

will present a travelogue about their Gorilla Trek and Zambian Safari at 7 p.m. this evening at the College of the Rockies lecture the-atre. This presentation gets up close and personal with mountain gorillas and other beasts and birds and concludes with tours of the slave chambers and spice planta-tions in Zanzibar. Admission is by donation to the Cranbrook GoGo Grannies - Grandmothers helping Grandmothers.

Thursday, November 22The Economics of HappinessWildsight’s One Planet film se-

ries brings the documentary movie ‘The Economics of Happiness’ to the College of the Rockies lecture theatre this evening at 7.30 p.m. This 2011 film describes a world moving towards further globaliza-tion and consolidation of power by governments and corporations on the one hand and towards the lo-calization of economies by com-munities on the other. Admission is by donation.

Friday, November 23Fabric Arts & Crafts

The Creative Kids After School Art Program at Centre 64 offers a class in creating art from recycled fabrics this afternoon from 2.30 to 4.30 p.m. The fee is $10, materials included. For more information and to register call Christine at 250-427-4919 or email kimberley-arts@telus.net.

Blacksmithing TechniquesToday’s blacksmithing work-

shop at Fort Steele Heritage Town is on practicing blacksmithing techniques. The workshop fee is $180. To register and for more in-formation call Henry at 250-420-7191.

Fort Steele Theatre CampThe second in the series of Pro

D day Theatre Camps offered in the Wildhorse Theatre at Fort Steele Heritage Town to children aged 6 to 12 years old by Lisa Aas-ebo takes place today from 9.30 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. For more infor-mation and to register contact Lisa at lisa.aasebo@fortsteele.bc.ca or call 250-420-7154.

Fall Fowl SupperKimberley United Church will

host its annual Fall Fowl Supper in the church lower hall this evening at 6 p.m. You are invited to enjoy home-cooked turkey and all the trimmings with pies for dessert. Tickets are $20, available from Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacy and the United Church office.

Saturday, November 24Dinner and Dance

Kimberley Emergency Services will host a dinner and dance to-night at the Kimberley Convention Centre. Tickets are $60 each, for which you get a prime rib dinner, dancing music by Billy Jive and the Funktastics, door prizes, and free rides home if you live within Kim-berley city limits. Tickets are avail-able at the Kimberley Fire Hall and Black Bear Books. For more infor-mation call 250-427-5795.

Change at Centre 64‘Change’, the current group ex-

hibition in the Gallery at Centre 64, features work in a variety of mediums by Ronda Wood, Mi-chael Flisak, Yoki, Kyla Richards, Helen Robertson, Dorial Davis, Tara Mercer, Lori Fontaine, Laurel Ralston, Jim Robertson, Lloyd Dean, Paula Cravens, Ann Holtby Jones, Grant Smith, Judy Winter, Justin Meeds and Tristan Neve. There are some surprising and eye-catching pieces in this show which closes today but can be viewed between 1 and 5 p.m. Tues-days through Saturdays in the meantime. It’s well worth a look.

Monday, November 26Dirt Bag Festival

The Dirt Bag Festival returns to the McKim Theatre in Kimberley this evening with a program of videos, slide shows, live perfor-mances, and a showing of ‘The Freedom Chair’, a finalist at the Banff Filmfest featuring Josh Dueck. The doors open at 6 p.m. and tickets are $22 available from Black Bear Books, Kootenay Cycle Works, Sprout Grocery, Gerricks, and High Country Sportswear.

Cranbrook Writers’ GroupThe Cranbrook Writer’s Group

meets tonight and every fourth Monday of the month from 7 to 9

p.m. at the Cranbrook and District Arts Council at 135-10th Avenue South. Writers of all skill levels working in any genre are invited to attend this supportive group for writing exercises, constructive cri-tiques, suggestions and sharing of information about the writing life. For more information call Norma at 250-426-9096.

Tuesday, November 27Cycling Across Germany

Have Camera Will Travel pres-ents a slide show, ’Cycling Across Germany – 700 kms Along the Elbe River’, by the Kimberley Biker Babes, this evening at 7.30 p.m. in the Theatre at Centre 64. Admis-sion is by donation, all proceeds going to Kimberley Arts Council and the Centre 64 expansion proj-ect..

Invitational Gift ShowOpening today in the Gallery at

Centre 64 is an Invitational Gift Show featuring artworks and arti-san products suitable for Christ-mas gifts by invited Kootenay art-ists. It includes pottery and paint-ings by Sandy Kunze of Galvanized Art Gallery, Wyndell; fabric art and vintage jewelry by Darcy Wanuk of Kimberley; ceramics and paint-ings by Helen Robertson of Kim-berley; fabric art by Virginia An-derson of Kimberley; paintings by Lori Joe of Kimberley; glass ware by Julie Gibbs of Sandpiper Studio, Windermere; birdhouses by Shel-ley Soles of Golden; pottery by Andrea Revoy of Blue Moon Pot-tery; paintings and Japanese paper art by John and Julie Ough of Kim-berley; and sculptures by Kyla Richardson of Kimberley. The show is open from 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays until December 22.

Thursday, November 29You Can’t Take It With You

Mount Baker Secondary School will perform the Pulitzer prize-winning family comedy ‘You Can’t Take It With You’ at Key City The-atre tonight and tomorrow at 7.30 p.m. and on Saturday, December 1, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $15 adults, $12 seniors and students, available

at the KCT box-office.

Friday, November 30Crafting a Gift

The final blacksmithing work-shop today in the series at Fort Steele Heritage Town is on crafting a gift. The fee is $225 plus cost of materials. For more information and to register call Henry at 250-420-7191.Painting a Christmas Landscape

Todays subject for students at-tending the Creative Kids After School Art Program at Centre 64 from 2.30 to 4.30 p.m. today is Painting a Christmas Landscape in acrylics on canvas. For more infor-mation and to register call Chris-tine at 250-427-4919 or email kim-berleyarts@telus.net.

Economics of HappinessWildsight’s One Planet film se-

ries presents the award-winning documentary ‘Economics of Hap-piness’ tonight at 7.30 p.m. in the Theatre at Centre 64. Admission is by donation. (See November 22 entry for details.)

Saturday, December 1Pre-Christmas Sale

The annual Harmony Chapter of the Eastern Star pre-Christmas sale will take place at the Kimber-ley Elks Club today from 11 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. featuring Christmas gift baskets, Christmas baking, hand-crafted gifts, and recycled Christ-mas decorations. Proceeds sup-port cancer research and other Harmony charities.

Homegrown CoffeehouseThe next HomeGrown Coffee-

house takes place this evening at 8 p.m. in the Theatre at Centre 64. Admission is $7. More details later.

Bungay at CreeksideTom Bungay will host tonight’s

open mic session at BJ’s Creekside Pub starting around 7.30 p.m.

Wednesday, December 5Senior Citizens Dinner

The 31st annual Senior Citizens Dinner sponsored by the Colombo Lodge and Cranbrook Rotary Club will be held at the Colombo Lodge this evening starting with cocktails at 5 p.m., dinner at 5.30 p.m., and dancing to follow. Admission is just $5 and tickets are available at the Heritage Inn.

Friday, December 7Book Drive

The annual book drive spon-sored by Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy & Kimberley Commu-nity Literacy’s needs gently used books for the Kimberley Helping Hands food bank Christmas ham-pers to be dropped off by today at the Overwaitea, Mark Creek Mar-ket, Kimberley Public Library, the Early Learning Centre, or at Kim-berley schools. For more informa-tion call CBAL coordinator Kim Robertsat 250-427-4468 or e-mail kroberts@cbal.org.

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Hot on the heels of Halloween comes ChristmasContinued from page 7

Canadian pop/rock/folk singer Barney Bentall performs at the Key City Theatre Tuesday, Nov. 13 at 7.30 p.m. this evening.

Alison Brown and her bluegrass/jazz fusion quartet will be per-forming at the Key City Theatre Sunday, Nov. 18

Physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté will speak at the Heritage Inn Wednesday, Nov. 21, from 7.30 to 9.30 p.m. on fostering health in a stressed society.

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3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths. Has sunken living room with vaulted ceiling. Wood burning fireplace insert. Large country kitchen and dining room. Full basement, hardwood, floors, metal roof. New windows, cabin and greenhouse. Many upgrades. Great views. Must see to appreciate.

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Suites, Lower2BDRM FULLY furnished

basement suite. No pets/smoking/parties.

$1000./mo. utilities included. Phone (250)417-0059 or

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Transportation

Cars - Domestic

2001 Mazda Protegé LX

Manual transmission, full tune-up, new brakes, fully serviced, safety inspected.

Stk# 0290$3,49500

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1019 Kootenay St. N.,

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Sport Utility Vehicle

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Black. Heated seats, cruise, tilt, power windows & locks, power

mirrors, 132,000kms. Great fuel economy. Immaculate

condition. Priced for quick sale.

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2000 DodgeDurango

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1019 Kootenay St. N.,

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No Ottawa finance analysis due to secrecy: PageJulilan Beltr ame

Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Canada’s budget watchdog will not issue a mid-year re-port on the federal gov-ernment’s finances, cit-ing lack of co-operation from the vast majority of departments.

Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page post-ed a partial analysis on the government’s $5.2 billion spending cuts plan Tuesday, but said a complete report that would be useful to par-liamentarians is impos-sible because he just hasn’t been given enough information.

He is seeking legal ad-vice on whether he can sue Ottawa for the infor-mation, saying he will have an opinion this month.

``We’re just saying show us the plan. This is not just a PBO issue, Par-liament needs to see this and if they do see it and start scrutinize these plans, the chance of hit-ting objectives goes up,’’ he said.

``But to say: We are

not giving you the plan, totally undermines Par-liament.’’

Page said he has been begging departments and other governmental organizations to report to his office their plans for personnel cuts and their impact on programs and services for seven months, but in many cases has received only a perfunctory response.

To date, the PBO has received responses to re-quests about budget cut-backs from 91 per cent of government depart-ments.

However, most have supplied inadequate in-formation, he said.

Only one-quarter of departments, represent-ing three per cent of the $5.2 billion in budgeted cutbacks, have provided data on personnel losses or the impact on services to Canadians, he said.

``The lack of disclo-sure will prevent the PBO from providing parlia-mentarians with inde-pendent analysis on the state of the nation’s fi-nances and the estimates

of the government,’’ the budget officer said in the analysis.

On Monday, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty re-iterated his position that he does not believe Page is entitled to the informa-tion he is seeking.

``My concern is his mandate is to look at government spending,’’ Flaherty told CBC’s Power and Politics pro-gram.

``What’s he’s propos-ing to do now is look at government non-spend-ing. I don’t see that in his mandate. I wish he would stick to his knit-ting, quite frankly, he has enough to do.’’

Treasury Board Presi-dent Tony Clement took a different tack Tuesday.

``All I can say is we continue to co-operate with Mr. Page,’’ Clement said outside the Com-mons.

``We have done so in the past. We’re doing so in the present. We’ll do so in the future.’’

He said the govern-ment has a number of competing obligations,

PBO Kevin Page

``so this process is quite all-encompassing in terms of our reporting.’’

Flaherty is expected to issue the government’s economic update on the fiscal year so far later this month.

Page said his counter-parts in other countries have no such difficulties, noting that his mandate is to scrutinize the esti-

mates of the government, which would include both higher and lower levels of spending. He has the backing of the opposition parties on the interpretation.

But Page said he doesn’t want to go to court, and once he re-ceives a legal opinion, he hopes the dispute can be resolved.

Teen smugglers caught in the act

C anaDian PreSSVANCOUVER — The

Canada Border Servic-es Agency says a pair of teenagers planning to board a flight out of Vancouver had swal-lowed more than 300 pellets of drugs in a smuggling attempt.

A border guard be-came suspicious of the 17- and 18-year-old males during question-ing on Sunday.

Under secondary questioning, border services officers found

inconsistencies in an-swers from the teens and thought they might be what the agency calls ``internal narcot-ics carriers’’.

Health officials de-cided the pellets were deteriorating and both teenagers needed emergency surgery to remove the drug, which is believed to be meth-amphetamine.

The CBSA says one traveller was carrying 229 pellets while the second had 79 pellets.

Meteorite lands in courtStePhanie WaDDell

Canadian Press

WHITEHORSE — A decade-long court fight over allegations of a sto-len meteorite that was growing a life form is now in the hands of the Yukon Court of Appeal.

Daniel Sabo is suing the federal government, staff members with the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), and an RCMP officer claiming

the meteorite he found in 1986 was replaced with a replica and he wants $12 million.

Scientists with the GSC concluded the growth on the space rock could be a natural result of oxidation of minerals, a salt-type crystal or a type of lichen.

The Yukon Supreme Court rejected Sabo’s claim in a decision last year.

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Lee-Anne GoodmAnCanadian Press

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama avoided a pink slip Tuesday, marching to victory against his Republican chal-lenger despite a slow-as-mo-lasses economic recovery and a bitterly contested election that had the U.S. president’s supporters fearful he was doomed to the indignity of a single term.

Obama was declared the winner after several gut-wrenching hours that saw the president and his White House rival, Mitt Romney, spend election night much as they did their bruising, $2.6 billion campaign — in a tense nail-biter.

Supporters at Obama’s Chicago headquarters greet-ed the president with eupho-ria as he strode to the podium to the upbeat strains of Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered,’’ his 2008 campaign anthem.

“Tonight in this election, you, the American people, re-mind us that while our road has been hard, while our jour-neys have been long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back, and we know in our hearts that for the United States of America, the best is yet to come,’’ Obama said.

At Romney headquarters in Boston, meanwhile, the mood was grim following an election long considered well within the Republican’s grasp.

“This is a time of great challenges for America,’’ a composed, gracious Romney told his supporters after it took him more than an hour to concede after the president clinched the election.

“I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation.’’

Obama’s success this year was in contrast to his historic triumph in 2008, when he be-came the country’s first Afri-can-American president and won the White House on an inspiring message of hope and change.

In 2012, Obama’s rhetoric was decidedly less soaring — although his victory speech on election night certainly showed a return to form.

“We are an American fam-ily and we rise and fall to-gether as one nation and as one people,’’ he said.

But on the campaign trail, it was little wonder Obama chose to remind Americans he understood their impa-tience with him — the na-tion’s citizens, after all, are still struggling to recover from a

devastating economic reces-sion that took unrelenting hold of the country soon after the president took office.

Obama, indeed, has be-come the first incumbent president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term with an unemployment rate above 7.4 per cent.

Unlike 2008, the president no longer pledges to dramati-cally change the toxic political culture in the U.S. capital — not surprising given the rigid opposition he’s faced from Republicans in the House of Representatives since they took back control of the chamber in 2010.

Instead, he’s vowed to fin-ish the work he’d started and urged Americans to stand by him.

American FaultlinesEven though Obama se-

cured a second term, the elec-tion exposed bitter partisan and demographic fault lines in the United States that threaten to endure for years to come.

Obama handily won the votes of women, young Amer-icans, African-Americans and Hispanics — in fact, the presi-dent got almost 70 per cent of the Latino vote, the fastest growing demographic in the United States.

In Pennsylvania, the high turnout of African-American voters — reportedly even

higher than it was in 2008 — was thought to have played a critical role in the president’s victory there.

Romney, meantime, won over older Americans, work-ing-class whites and those with family incomes of $50,000 a year or more.

Obama’s triumph was the long-awaited culmination of one of the hardest-fought presidential campaigns in re-cent U.S. history. Indeed, he only narrowly appeared to have won the popular vote over Romney.

But under the American system, presidential candi-dates compete not for popu-lar vote, but for the electoral college votes up for grabs stateside. Those votes are as-signed based on a state’s pop-ulation and representation in Congress.

Eight states, representing 89 electoral college votes, were considered battle-grounds: Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Virginia, Florida, North Carolina and New Hampshire. Romney won only North Carolina; Florida was too close to call.

Throughout the cam-paign, Romney insisted the president had failed misera-bly to deliver on his heady promises of 2008, assailing him in particular for his han-dling of America’s persistent economic woes.

Romney, a wealthy one-

time venture capitalist, as-serted that his own business experience would make him a better choice for Americans.

But many left-leaning Americans deeply distrusted the Republican, particularly after the emergence of a se-cretly recorded videotape in early September that showed him disparaging almost half of the electorate as govern-ment freeloaders.

Hispanics, meantime, never forgave Romney for re-marks he made during pri-mary season, when he said il-legal immigrants should “self-deport.’’

The 65-year-old former Massachusetts governor nonetheless fought until the bitter end, making last-min-ute campaign appearances Tuesday in Ohio and Pennsyl-vania even as millions of Americans were casting their ballots.

“This is a big day for big change,’’ Romney said in Richmond Heights, Ohio, alongside his running mate, Paul Ryan.

“The country’s been going in the wrong direction for the last few years; we’re going to steer it back onto a course that’s going to help the Ameri-can people have a brighter future.’’

Obama, for his part, offi-cially ended his final political campaign with an emotional appearance with his wife, Mi-

chelle, on Monday night in Iowa, where he won his first primary season contest in 2008.

Dead HeatMore than 45 million

Americans had already cast their ballots in early voting by the time Tuesday rolled around.

For those who trudged to the polls on election day, spo-radic problems awaited them at polling stations across the country, especially in the key battleground states.

The race for the White House had been a dead heat, with polls showing Obama and Romney tied nationally for weeks as they offered up competing visions for the country.

The president, however, had pulled ahead nationally in a pair of polls released this week. Obama also had persis-tent, narrow leads in several of the battleground states; he also reportedly had the edge in early voting.

Obama’s improved show-ing in a slew of recent surveys suggested his response to mega-storm Sandy, which devastated New York and New Jersey last week, had won him crucial support in those swing states.

Most of those surveyed have given the president high marks when asked about his handling of federal relief ef-

forts.

Houses DividedSandy underscored one of

the key themes of the election — the role of government in the lives of citizens. Romney once suggested federal fund-ing for disaster relief was “im-moral.’’ The plight of the mid-dle class was another primary topic of disagreement.

Obama has been vilified by Republicans for a tepid economic recovery following the financial meltdown that took stubborn hold of the United States just as he won the White House in 2008.

They’ve also accused him of being a socialist, saying he’s expanding government and creating a welfare state while raising taxes and running up the national debt to mon-strous levels.

In fact, Obama has cut taxes and shrunk government during his four years in office, slashing more than half a mil-lion federal jobs since 2009.

His predecessor, George W. Bush, ran up the debt to unprecedented levels while financing two overseas wars. The billions Obama has spent in corporate bailouts and eco-nomic stimulus measures are credited by many economists with putting the brakes on what might have been a full-fledged depression.

Democrats, meantime, warned Americans that Rom-ney and Ryan would slash cherished entitlement pro-grams, including Medicare, and push through 1950s-era social policies on abortion and contraception.

They also said Romney would roll back Obama’s Wall Street regulations to the rela-tively lawless state of affairs that allowed the financial meltdown to happen in the first place.

And yet Tuesday night’s congressional winners and losers were every bit as im-portant as the ultimate White House victor. Congress, after all, is more powerful than the executive branch in terms of bringing to life — or snuffing out — a president’s legislative hopes and dreams.

The makeup of Congress remained relatively un-changed, with Republicans maintaining control of the House of Representatives and Democrats dominating the Senate.

That means Obama will face a Republican House that’s no warmer to his agen-da than it has been for the past two fractious years.

Obama claims victory over rival Romney after divisive campaign

AP Photo/PAblo MArtinez MonsivAis

Supporters cheer as they wait for President Barack Obama at his election night party Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, in Chicago. President Obama defeated Republican challenger former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.