Cranbrook Daily Townsman, February 25, 2015

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RHYME TIME: The 35th annual Curlathon, a fundraiser for the Heart and Stroke Foundation, was a smashing success once again this past weekend. Over 30 teams hit the ice sheets at the Cranbrook Curling Centre, all costumed with the theme of Nursery Rhymes. Over $12,000 was raised by the event, which continues a long tradition of support for the Heart and Stroke Foundation in Cranbrook. Teams came dressed up as Little Bo Peep and her sheep, the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf, while the winners of the team costume category was a medley of Whovians from the classic story of Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss. Jeff Bleany laid claim to the top fundraiser, raking in over $1,900 by himself.

ARNE PE TRYSHENCranbrook City

Council has decided to decommission the Idlewild Dam.

At the regular coun-

cil meeting on Monday, Mayor Lee Pratt said that over the course of an in-camera session prior to the regular meeting, council had

come to the decision.“We had a closed

meeting before council and what came out of that is council has de-cided to decommission

the Idlewild Dam,” Pratt said. “Basically what that means is that we’re going to draw the water out.”

The meeting includ-

ed a review of findings and recommendations of an engineering report on the safety of the dam at Idlewild Park.

Pratt said a number

of issues had influenced the decision.

“It’s not a decision that came lightly to council,” he said, and it came down to safety.

The Dam Breach In-undation Study noted if the dam failed, the un-controlled release of water from Idlewild Lake would follow Jo-seph Creek through town and potentially flood up to 21 per cent

of the city. That could impact as many as 2,100 residential properties and nearly 500 busi-nesses. The report noted there was also potential for loss of life.

Pratt said the city needs to lower the lake as a temporary measure to protect the public, but would revisit the matter in the future.

Idlewild dam to be decommissioned

Kimberley’s Ferrie wins Gold at Canada Games

C AROLYN GR ANTGolden news out of

Prince George late Tuesday — Kimberley’s Colin Ferrie took gold at the Canada Games in the 1.5 Classic Sprint, cross-country ski race. We will have more on

the race in Thursday’s Townsman.

Also on Tuesday, 13-year old Molly Miller of Kimberley, racing against skiers five years and older than her, placed nine in the Women’s Classic Sprint.

Deer translocation not an option,

for now, City says

ARNE PETRYSHENA lumber company with

operations in Cranbrook has been ranked in the 2015 TSX Venture 50 list, ranks strong performing companies on the

TSX Venture ExchangeJemi Fibre Corp. ranked

second in the Diversified In-dustries Category.

“We are pleased to be ranked amongst the top per-

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the forest products sector through integrated operations and a focus on unique timber and manufacturing assets.”

Locally operated lumber company ranks 2nd on TSX list

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TRE VOR CR AWLEYARNE PETRYSHEN With the City of

Cranbrook poised to conduct an urban deer population reduction program, council and city staff are fielding questions about relocat-ing the deer instead of euthanizing.

At this point, the province does not con-sider translocation as an option for urban deer management.

The city noted a cull is the only management tool the province makes available to municipali-ties to try to alleviate some concerns of local residents — specifically around aggressive ani-mals.

Wayne Staudt, the chief administrative of-ficer for the city of Cran-brook, gave an update on options for dealing with urban deer during a city council meeting on Feb. 23.

Staudt told council that there is some work being done on translo-cation, but it is not being looked at as an alterna-tive to a cull.

“It’s not, do this [translocation] and not do the cull,” Staudt said. “This is just a pilot proj-ect that is being consid-ered and we’re part of the group in the East Kootenay that is looking into this.

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The Cranbrook Farmer’s Market is taking place indoors, on the second and fourth Saturday of every month, until the summer outdoor season starts up again downtown. Join our local area vendors offering fresh bread, eggs, meats,apples, preserves, baked treats, body care items, and works by wonderful local artisans. The next market is on Saturday, February 28, from 10 am - 1 pm at the Ktunaxa Gym, 220 Cranbrook St. N. (www.cranbrookfarmersmarket.com)

Barry CouLTerTotal donations and donors to the

candidates in the 2014 municipal election have been made public by Elections BC.

Under the Local Elections Cam-paign Financing Act, disclosure statements must be filed with B.C.’s Chief Electoral Officer within 90 days after General Voting Day for an elec-tion.

The filing deadline for the 2014 General Local Elections was 4:30 p.m. on Friday, February 13, 2015. The statements include expenses of each filer and information regarding contributions they received.

In Cranbrook, each candidate filed information as required and the total contributions to each municipal candidate are listed in alphabetical order below. For the most part, can-didates’ campaign expenditures and campaign income all balanced out. For a complete list of donors to each campaign, go to contributions.elec-

tionsbc.gov.bc.ca/pcs/

For Mayor• Lee Pratt: $13,700• Wayne Stetski: $8,641.20• John York: Zero contributions ($24 expenditures)

For Council• Norma Blissett: $4,255• Danielle Cardozo: $1,209.96• Sharon Cross: $3,177• James Elliott: Zero contributions (zero expenditures)• Bob Faiers: $1,935.84• Wesly Graham: $2,960• Isaac Hockley: $3,500• Anna Hudson: $307.50• Brian Kostiuk: $3,941• Alan MacBean: $383.51• Lynn MacIntosh: $300• Ron Popoff: $4,942• Diana J. Scott: $4,057.11• Brad Scriver: $3,450• Tom Shypitka: $1,815.23• Gerry Warner: $2,275

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Costs related to the anti-deer cull lawsuit levied at the District of Invermere in 2012 by the Invermere Deer Protection Society (IDPS) and ensuing appeal are still a subject of contention.

Over a year ago, the society was ordered to pay court costs following the lawsuit’s dismissal in No-vember 2013. The amount the district was allowed to claim based on a schedule of fixed rates set by the Supreme Court of British Columbia came to $12,072.13. A payment of $12,000 — the amount that had been posted as security by the society — was received by the district in July of last year.

“We’ve written off $72 from the original petition because it just wasn’t worth going after,” District of Invermere chief administrative officer Chris Prosser told The Pioneer.

The society had appealed the court’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit, which a judge also dismissed and, again, costs were awarded to the district.

“The total allowed cost by the court for the ap-peal process was $1,689.51 which has not been col-lected and we are deciding how best to proceed,” said Mr. Prosser.

Because the deer society has not consented to paying the cost by signing the Bill of Costs corre-spondence sent to them by the district, the next step for the district would be to pursue a new court order.

“We’d have to go to court a couple times to make (the IDPS) pay,” said Mr. Prosser, adding the process would cost more than the appeal costs.

“We have not directed any action for our lawyers to proceed, either not to get it or to go after it,” he said. “We’ve just been waiting to see what corre-spondence happens.”

While court costs awarded to the district total less than $14,000, Mr. Prosser calculates the actual legal costs related to the lawsuit and appeal amount to approximately $107,000. “So about $34,000 a year we were spending,” he said — not $24,000 as Inver-mere mayor Gerry Taft was quoted as saying in last week’s Pioneer. “We are allowed to have court costs. Only court costs. Not legal costs.”

IDPS president Devin Kazakoff refused The Pio-neer an interview.

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The earliest that any translocation can take place — just a pilot proj-ect to see the survival rate of the animals and so forth — will be 2016.”

The province does not have the scientific evidence saying that translocation of deer works and that urban-ized deer relocated out of town would survive the transportation or survive in the location their moved to. But that could change over the next number of months.

The City of Cran-brook has been involved along with the District of Elkford, the City of Kim-berley, the District of In-vermere and the Minis-try of Forests, Land and Natural Resource Oper-ations (MFLNRO) in providing seed funding ($1,000 contribution by the City of Cranbrook in 2014) and some staff support toward the de-velopment of a pro-

posed East Kootenay Urban Mule Deer Trans-location Trial.

The District of Elk-ford is the overall proj-ect lead. Vast Resource Solutions has been con-tracted to research and develop the proposed trial program and seek external funding re-sources.

Ian Adams, a wildlife biologist with Vast Re-source Solutions, is al-ready working on the project, which is aiming for a budget of roughly $100,000 to complete the entire study.

The ultimate goal is to see what urban deer survivorship and move-ments are like post-translocation from an urban setting.

“The key point and particularly what the province is after is the post-release monitoring afterwards,” said Adams. “What are the fate of the deer? Are they getting

picked off by predators right away? What levels of survivorship do we have?”

Adams adds that areas in the U.S., such as in New Mexico and Utah, there are deer translocation trials where survivorship is up to 50-75 per cent.

“Those experiences, to a large extent, have driven the province to say, ‘Okay, lets take a look at this,’” said Adams. “Fifty per cent survivor rate doesn’t sound all that good, but it’s a lot better than a cull.”

What is most import-ant for people to under-stand that the trial, if approved by the prov-ince, would be a scien-tific study and not meant to remove large numbers of deer from the community.

The proposed pro-gram would capture, re-locate and radio-collar a

Deer translocation is not an option, City says

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The City of Cranbrook won’t be pursuing a translocation alternative to an urban deer cull this year.

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“The longer term of it is… what we want to do is rebuild that dam properly, to today’s standards, so that it will pass and be good for many years to come.”

That would include a new dam, a restored lake and rehabilitated spillway system.

He said at that point he hopes they can get community groups, or-ganizations and the public involved in the rebuilding of the park as well.

“We want to rebuild that park to a bigger, better park than it was with a lot of enhance-ments,” Pratt said.

“Idlewild is an im-portant asset and we want to include resi-dents in the discussion

about what a rehabili-tated Idlewild Lake should look like.”

He said he hoped the city could begin on that soon and Idlewild lake wouldn’t be a creek for long.

Pratt also noted the city has been in touch with the Regional Dis-trict of East Kootenay on the matter. There have been discussions on a potential partnership with the regional district on the park in the fu-ture.

“We recognize the significance of Idlewild to the residents and visi-tors of the area, and look forward to the opportu-nity to work with the city to create a new plan for the lake and park,” said Rob Gay, RDEK board

chair. Pratt also noted this the lowering of the lake is only the first step, and Cranbrook resi-dents will be kept up to speed on what is hap-pening.

“We look forward to consulting with the public on the future of Idlewild Lake and the park,” Pratt said.

The city had previ-ously estimated the cost of replacing the dam and dredging the lake to

be $2.5 million, back in September 2014.

Idlewild dam was built in the 1930s and is an earth-filled dam with a concrete core. The city said the dam is classi-fied as a very high con-sequence dam by the Ministry of Forests Lands and Natural Re-source Operations. That was confirmed in the Dam Breach Inundation Study, completed by Urban Systems in 2014.

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Idlewild Lake will eventually be down to creek levels

BILL METC ALFE Nelson Star

There may be many unanswered questions about the declining fish stocks in Kootenay Lake, but one thing is certain: residents are alarmed about it. About 300 peo-ple packed the Balfour Hall on Monday night to discuss the problem with staff from the Min-istry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resources.

The meeting fol-lowed a call for govern-ment action by a num-ber of groups including the British Columbia Wildlife Federation and the West Arm Outdoors Club.

The ministry staff at the Balfour meeting seemed a bit taken aback by the large turn-out, cautioning people at the beginning of the meeting to be respectful with their questions, ap-parently fearing a verbal attack. But they needn’t have worried. The doz-ens of polite questions reflected a roomful of knowledgable, thought-ful, experienced resi-dents committed to the lake and the fish.

The questions were about predator-prey re-lationships, spawning numbers, habitat pro-tection and restoration, research gaps, commu-

nity involvement, nutri-ent restoration, the dol-lar value of the fishery, water temperatures, cli-mate change, re-stock-ing, the IH1 virus, the role of the federal gov-ernment, the effects of the dams, funding for restoration, and more.

There were many ap-peals for more informa-tion, community in-volvement, government transparency, and more meetings like this one.

Josh Smienk orga-nized the meeting for the Balfour and District Business and Historical Association.

“People do have the capacity to understand technical decisions,” he said. “People want to know why decisions are made. It is so personal for them. It is their own backyard”

The government offi-cials, headed by biolo-gist Jeff Burrows, re-sponded to questions with charts, graphs, and historical details.

They often admitted they didn’t know the an-swers to some of the

hard questions.They said they do not

know the reason for the fish population declines but think it is probably related to predator-prey relationships and they are going to set up an expert panel to investi-gate.

But one concrete change is proposed.

Starting in April the ministry expects to lower the catch quota for Kokanee from 15 to zero per day, and in-crease the quota for rainbow trout from two to four per day, to bal-ance predator-prey ra-tios.

Burrows said these changes have the assent of the Kootenay Fish Regulations Advisory Committee, a local stakeholder group.

The essence of the problem seems to be the balance between preda-tor (Gerrard trout) and prey (Kokanee). The current situation is characterized by a shortage of older Ko-kanee, an average abun-dance of Kokanee fry, Gerrard trout abun-dance declining from a recent record high, but a reduction in their size, and a high abundance of young Gerrards. The result seems to be a re-

duction in prey because of too many predators, and a reduction in the size, condition, and abundance of predators because they don’t have enough to eat.

Into that mix, add zooplankton, the tiny aquatic animals that are the main diet of the Ko-kanee. The abundance of zooplankton is de-pendent on the amount of nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorus) that is added to the lake each year by the Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program.

Burrows said the new expert team will be meeting in March and will consist of fisheries experts from inside and outside of government. He said the group has a budget for this fiscal year, but beyond that, funding is unknown.

He said the group will not be doing re-search but that it will be “an office exercise” that will look at data over many decades and look for possible gaps. He said that might lead to new studies in the fu-ture.

Smienk says the community will be watching closely.

“We have asked them to come back to us with their decision and the science behind it,” he said. “We are not sitting back letting them make decisions for us. We want to understand their decisions and have input into them.”

Anglers pack Balfour Hall looking for answers to Kootenay Lake fish decline

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ONGOING Cranbrook Writer’s Group meet on the 4th Monday of the month at the Arts Council. Engage in writing exercises, constructive critiques & share in information on upcoming literary events & contests. Cbk and District Arts Council, 104, 135-10th Ave S, CBK. info: 250-426-4223 www.cranbrookanddistrictartscouncil.comCanadian Cancer Society- if you have spare time and would like to volunteer, interested applicants can call 250-426-8916, drop by our offi ce at #19-9th Avenue S, Cranbrook or go to www.fi ghtwithus.ca and register as a volunteer.Royal Canadian Legion Branch 24; Friday Meat Draw: 4:30- 6:30, Saturday Meat Draw: 3:30-5:30. Parkinson’s Support Group are meeting at 2 pm on the third Wednesday of each month at the Heritage Inn. For more info. phone Linda @ 250-489-4252. No meetings July, Aug or Dec.Do you have the desire to stop eating compulsively? Overeaters Anonymous (a 12-Step Program) meets Mondays from 7-8pm at Cranbrook United Church, 2-12th St. S., downstairs. Contact: [email protected] Star Quilters Society Meetings are held the 2nd & 4th Monday at 7:00 PM, basement of Centennial Centre, 100 4th Ave Kimberley. Welcoming all! Info call Heather 250 427-4906‘Military Ames’ social/camaraderie/support group meetings are held in the Kimberley Public Library reading room the fi rst and third Tuesday’s of the month. All veterans welcome. For more information contact Cindy 250 919 3137 Dance/Practice: every Saturday. Practice from 7 to 8 PM, dancing until 11 PM. Dance With Me Cranbrook Studio, 206-14 A 13th Street, South, behind Safeway.Volunteers are needed to assist staff with childminding while parents attend programs at the Kimberley Early Learning Center. Come play!! Weekly or monthly for 2 hours. Diana 250427-0716 BINGO - every Monday except public holidays, 6:30 pm at Kimberley Elks, 240 Howard Street. Proceeds to Kimberley Helping Hands Food Bank. All welcome!Funtastic Singers Drop-In Singing group; free to attend-just for fun! No experience necessary! CDAC Offi ce&Gallery 135 10th Ave S, Tuesdays; 6.45-8.15pm 250-426-4223 / [email protected] / www.cranbrookanddistrictartscouncil.comCantabelles, an all-female singing group, meets Mondays, 7-9 pm. Join us and learn how to sing with 2, 3 and 4 part harmonies. Contact: Sue Trombley, 250-426-0808. [email protected] literacy and special projects at the Kimberley Public Library-visit the Friends of the Library Used Bookstore-an ongoing fundraiser- on Main Street Marysville, Wed-Sat 10:30-3:30. Operated totally by volunteers.Volunteers always needed for the Marysville Thrift shop! Please contact Marilyn @ 427-4153 or Jean @ 427-7072.Bibles For Missions Thrift Store, 824 Kootenay St. N., Cranbrook - serving our community to benefi t others - at home and abroad. We turn your donations into helping dollars! Open Tues-Sat 10am-5pm. Phone 778-520-1981.Cranbrook Community Tennis Association welcomes all citizens to play or learn to play. Call Neil 250-489-8107, Cathy 250-464-1903.

UPCOMINGFREE Movie Night @ COTR - Wed, Feb 25th, 2015, “I Am”. Poses practical and provocative questions. Wed, Feb 25th, 2015, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, College of the Rockies – Lecture Theatre Girl Guides of Canada, Cranbrook are hosting a TEA & BAKE SALE on Saturday, February 28th, 2015 at the Cranbrook Guide Hall, 1421 - 2nd Street South, from 12:30 to 3:30pm. Tickets are available from any Guiding member or at the door. Info: Pam at 250-489-3155 or [email protected] Thomas, a suicide prevention speaker, will be coming to Cranbrook March 2, 2015 to the College of the Rockies main lecture theatre, 6:00pm-8:30pm. James lost his sister to suicide in 2005 and now dedicates his life to suicide awareness and prevention. This event is free and everyone is welcome. Donations at the door are appreciated. This has been organized by Sandra Davis with the My Choice Program. Info: Email: [email protected] Phone: 250-919-61552015 FREE PUBLIC SWIM Wednesday, March 4, 5:00-6:00pm is sponsored by Kimberley Health Care Auxiliary.World Day of Prayer, annual service on Friday, March 6, 1:30 pm at Knox Presbyterian Church, corner of Victoria Ave and 3rd St. S. Everyone welcome. Please join us!Fifth Annual Foster Parent Banquet & Loonie Auction, March 7, 5:30pm at the Heritage Inn Ballroom. Tickets: Gerri at 250-489-8441 or Erin at 250-489-8807.Fluoride Free Cranbrook meeting at the Manual Training Centre at the Cranbrook Library. 7:10-8:45pm March 9th. We will be meeting to discuss ways to stop the City from adding industrial waste through the water supply. We can be reached at (250)421-9878.The Kimberley Camera Club presents it’s Annual Digital Show on Wed. March 11, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall, Room 250 at the College of the Rockies in Cranbrook. Admission is by donation.

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CAROLYN GRANTentertainment@

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The display case at the Cranbrook Library for the month of Febru-ary is beautiful acrylic paintings by Jennie Tay-lor.In the gallery at

Centre 64Main gallery, Tan-

gled Up In Blue, art by Lena McQuaig. Up-stairs, enjoy Late Bloom-er by Rhonda Haws.

BIngoBINGO - every Mon-

day except public holi-days, 6:30 p.m. at Kim-berley Elks, 240 Howard Street. Proceeds to Kim-berley Helping Hands Food Bank. All wel-come!

Wed. FeBruary 25Free MovIe nIght

@ Cotr - “I Am”. Poses practi-

cal and provocative questions. Weds, Feb 25th, 2015 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. College of the Rockies – Lecture The-atre

FrI. FeB 27art MovIe nIght

“Exit Through the Gift Shop”, an entertain-ing documentary about graffiti/urban artists Banksy, Shepherd Fairey, and Mr. Brain-wash, will be showing at Kimberley’s Centre 64 Studio Cabaret this Fri-day, February 27. Movie starts at 7:30pm, en-trance is by donation, no host bar available, free snacks, all ages event. Cabaret-style seating. This 87 minute film was nominated for a 2010 Academy Award for documentaries. Come along with friends to enjoy this film in a casual environment, and then stay for the fa-cilitated discussion/conversation about the movie. Expand your horizons on current trends in contemporary art.

FrI. FeBruary 27north Star ShoWCaSe

Kimberley’s North Star Skaters present their annual Skating Showcase Friday eve-ning at the Kimberley Civic Centre. Show starts at 6:30 p.m.

FrI. FeBruary 27

InternatIonal Fly FIShIng FIlM FeSt

7 p.m. Key City The-atre. Tickets: $15 Ad-vance $20 at door. Chil-dren 12 and under are free. Tickets available at the Box Office 250-426-7006 as well as at St Marys Angler and Mountain Man. IF4 con-sists of short and feature length films from all cor-ners of the globe. It is the event of the year.

Sat. FeBruary 28Intro to oIlS

WorkShoP2 p.m. $35/person.

An introductory work-shop focused on Oil painting skills. Regis-trants will be sent the supply list. The Art Gal-lery is located at: Room #104, 135 10th Avenue South, Cranbrook. To Register or for more in-formation contact Mari-sa Phillips – CDAC Ad-ministrator at: 250-426-4223 or email: [email protected]

MarCh 1 at key CIty theatreIrISh roverS

March 1 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $45/ $40 for KCT Members. Throughout the years, these interna-tional ambassadors of Irish music have main-tained their timeless ability to deliver a rol-licking, rousing perfor-mance of good cheer - one that will soon have you singing and clap-ping along. Their songs have become anthems of revelry and joy among

generation after genera-tion of fans.

Monday MarCh 2BIg Sugar

BIG SUGAR have al-ways been known for their powerful, high vol-ume live performances. Soon, audiences will get a rare chance to see Gordie Johnson and the entire BIG SUGAR fami-ly in an intimate and en-tirely acoustic setting at Key City Theatre in Cranbrook. Reggae, Blues and Jazz, have al-ways walked hand in hand with the rocking Big Sugar sound. Here they will be at the fore-front as showcased on their new release “Yard-style”. Mr Chill’s blues harmonica and John-son’s vocals mixed with Jamaican folk rhythms and Garry Lowe’s signa-ture bass lines along with a stage of Bredren are sure to conjure an unforgettable concert experience. Tickets are $40 and $35 for Key City Theatre members. Tick-ets are available at the Key City Theatre Box Of-fice 250-426-7006 and Online at www.keyci-tytheatre.com

MarCh 5 - 7roCkIeS FIlM FeSt

The Rockies Film Festival lineup is con-firmed. Thursday March 5, 7 p.m. October Gale, Key City Theatre; 8:30 p.m. Wine & Cheese Reception, Key City The-atre; 9 p.m. Big News from Grand Rock, Key City Theatre. Friday March 6, 7 p.m. Red

Army, Columbia The-atre. 9 p.m. Still Alice, Columbia Theatre. Sat-urday March 7, 1 p.m. Rosewater, Columbia Theatre. 3 p.m. Mr. Turner, Columbia The-atre. 7 p.m. 2 Days One Night Co-lumbia Theatre. 9 p.m. Glen Campbell - I’ll Be Me, Columbia Theatre.

FrI. MarCh 6World day oF

Prayer1:30 p.m. Knox Pres-

byterian Church. Join in prayer with people in 170 countries around the world and in 2,000 communities across Canada. We will learn about the peopple of the Bahamas who prepared this yar’s service. Every-one is welcome.

MarCh 6 - 7lIllIth aFFaIrThe Annual By

Women, For Women show at Centre 64. Tick-ets $25 (includes wine). Saturday’s show is sold out, Friday tickets avail-able at Lotus Books in Cranbrook and Velvet & Ginjer and Centre 64 in Kimberley. 19 years and older. Women only.

MarCh 7SIlent auCtIonTickets are on sale

now for the fifth annual Foster Parent Banquet and Loonie Auction. March 7 at 5:30 p.m. at the Heritage Inn Ball-room. $28 each. Contact Gerri at 250-489-8841 or Erin at 250-489-8807.

Sat. MarCh 7 hedWIg at key

CItyHEDWIG and the

Angry Inch - The Musi-cal, presented by Black Productions and Selkirk College. March 7 at 7:30 p.m. ONE SHOW ONLY! Tickets: $24 Adults and $21 Students.

Sun. MarCh 8arne Sahlen

Arne Sahlen, Piano Soul and Spirit - a fami-ly-friendly program, classics to moderns laced with humour from music history Sunday March 8, 3:00 pm at Centre 64, Kimberley. Admission by donation

Wed. MarCh 11PhotograPhyThe Kimberley Cam-

era Club presents it’s Annual Digital Show on Wed. March 11, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall, Room 250 at the College of the Rockies in Cranbrook. Admission is by donation.

Sat. MarCh 14antIque road

ShoWBeta Sigma Phi pres-

ents Kimberley’s very own Antique Road Show at the Kimberley United Church, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $5 and includes coffee/tea and a muffin. Apprais-als $25 one or two items. Gordon Delam-ont, Jeweler/Gemolo-gist and Don Langvand, Dragon Antiques. Pro-ceeds go to Beta Sigma Phi community proj-ects.

Bring in March with the Irish Rovers

Catch the legendary irish Rovers at Key City theatre this Sunday.


“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players, they have their exits and their entrances….”

Shakespeare

It is a real conundrum: is it the weath-er we enjoy here? Is it because we do not have to put up

with the sogginess of Vancou-ver, the sweltering heat of To-ronto summers, nor the awful climate of the Maritimes? Is it something about this valley makes people very pleasant or is that only pleasant people come to live here? I’m always running into them.

Like my neighbours; I really appreciate them who, whilst I am watching the news and breakfasting at leisure, are out clear-ing the snow from in front of my garden. I have tried to assure them that I am neither incapable nor lazy. It’s just I know that the snow will dissipate on its own or the city might, one day, go to work on it. If I feel that I need exercise, I’ll take a nice walk.

Like recently: I was descending Eager Hill and nearly back to my car when two dogs bounded up to greet me. That enthu-siastic welcome caused me, in my turn, to hasten towards them but, to my dismay, I toppled over. The dogs’ owners rushed towards me crying, “You all right, sir?” and attempted to help me to my feet. Aged and

tottery I might be, but I have heaps of pride. I said, brushing myself off, “I’m fine, thanks. I was merely falling for your lovely dogs.” I got away with that one.

And there were those delightful mis-sionary types, a man and a woman, who came to point out the multitudinous er-

rors of my ways. They told me all about faith and looked heavenward (for inspiration?) into the bright, sunny sky. However, they seemed to have absolutely no knowledge of biology; the fellow explained to

me that the first MAN (Adam?) thought that he might like to have children and therefore had to come up with the bright idea of WOMAN. When I explained that all of our evolutionary forebears seem to have needed two sexes in order to repro-duce, the man looked confused but then maundered on about we humans ruining the world we live in with our avarice. I at-tempted to explain that, because MAN discovered WOMAN, we humans have become extremely successful at reproduc-ing and that we all need somehow to be fed.

We men shook hands solemnly and I sneaked a hug from the woman then the missionaries wandered off. It had all be pleasant enough, but I wondered.

I wondered about the woman with the mistaken sense of generosity. I had prom-ised myself that I wouldn’t air the good-ness of the lady but, from out of nowhere, she proffered a nice new twenty dollar bill. I didn’t think that I looked like a down-and-outer. I was, in fact, placing some stamps I’d just purchased in the Post Of-fice in my wallet when she drew up beside me, wound down the window of her car and handed the twenty to me. As gra-ciously as I was able, I refused the money, told the lady that I was, ipso facto, finan-cially well off, and she drove off. If she should read this column, I hope that I didn’t offend her and that I appreciated her kindness. I am still wondering if I looked that badly off; maybe I should buy another T-shirt.

One day I shall go back into the law-courts and thank the young woman in the office there. I’d been putting on my daft act (my friends assure me that I have no need to act) in order to make sure that I’d be excused from jury duty. After getting a snappily dressed lawyer to trot around for me, I wound up in the office where the said young lady came round from her sta-tion behind the counter in order to lead me by the arm to the sheriff’s office. She was extremely courteous.

Is it just that the pleasant folk here-abouts feel sorry for me? I am extremely old as well as daft.

All the world’s a stage

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LET’S FILL THE STANDS!

GO NITROS!LET’S FILL THE STANDS!

GO NITROS!

Nitros vs

Creston Valley Thundercatsat Kimberley Civic Centre

7:00 PMThursday February 26

FAN APPRECIATION NIGHTThursday, Feb 26

WIN a 50” LG HD TV!Every fan who comes to the game will

receive a free ticket.

2015 Bantam Tier 2 ProvincialsMARCH 14 - 19, 2015

MEMORIAL ARENA, CRANBROOK

Justin Garcia#15

Forward

If you would like to volunteer during the week or are interested in being a sponsor please contact:

Nicole Koran 250-421-3354.

Nickname: JJ

Favourite Food: Popcorn

Favorite Hockey Team: Chicago Blackhawks

Favorite Player: Alexander Ovechkin

Best Part of Being on CPC Hornets: The coaching staff and my team mates

I Play Hockey Because: I like to be physical, it’s fun and you can get paid for it!

In One Word My Team Mates Would Describe Me As: Funny

HOCKEY QUOTE“Being able to stand on that blue line and hear

your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that....”

SIDNEY CROSBY

Fernie, BC

StrangleholdDynamiters defeat Thunder Cats for 3-1 series lead

Without a paddleIce surrender to Broncos in shootout; reset for Regina Pats Wednesday

Kootenay Ice Scoring SummariesTueSday, Feb. 24

KooTenay Ice 6 aT SwIFT currenT broncoS 7 (So)

First Period 1. KTN - L. Philp, (27) (T. Murray, C. Fleury), 1:282. KTN - T. Bozon, (27) (S. Reinhart, J. Martin), 3:073. SCB - T. LeSann, (5) (C. Leth), 3:224. KTN - J. Descheneau, (28) (A. Vetterl, L. Philp), 9:00Second Period 5. SCB - C. Gordon, (20) (G. Gawdin, J. Merkley), 4:236. KTN - T. Bozon, (28) (J. Martin, S. Reinhart), 9:207. KTN - T. Lishchynsky, (1) (L. Philp, S. Reinhart), 19:05 (PP)Third Period 8. SCB - C. Gordon, (21) (G. Gawdin), 5:029. SCB - J. DeBrusk, (36) (C. Rigby, C. Cave), 14:0310. SCB - A. Nikkel, (2) (J. DeBrusk), 16:2311. KTN - L. Cable, (26) (L. Philp, L. Hackman), 17:1312. SCB - C. Cave, (28) (B. Lernout, C. Gordon), 18:35Overtime - no scoringShootoutKootenay Ice: L. Philp (x), T. Bozon (x), J. Descheneau (x), S. Reinhart (x)Swift Current Broncos:C Gordon (x), G. Gawdin (x), M. Lajoie (x), J. DeBrusk (√)Shots 1 2 3 OT TKootenay Ice 12 11 9 2 34Swift Current Broncos 10 12 11 4 37Goaltenders Saves Mins SV%KTN - Wyatt Hoflin 31/37 65:00 0.838SCB - Landon Bow 13/18 29:20 0.722 Travis Child 15/16 35:22 0.938Power playsKootenay Ice 1/1 (100.0%)Swift Current Broncos 0/2 (000.0%)Three Stars: 1) L. Philp (KTN); 2) C. Gordon (SCB); 3) G. Gawdin (SCB)Attendance: 1,911

Upcoming GamesFeb. 25 at ReginaFeb. 27 at BrandonFeb. 28 at BrandonMarch 6 vs. Red DeerMarch 7 at Medicine HatMarch 10 vs. LethbridgeMarch 13 vs. Medicine HatMarch 14 at Red DeerMarch 18 at LethbridgeMarch 20 vs. CalgaryMarch 22 at Calgary

Scoring StatisticsPlayer GP G A PTS PIM Jaedon Descheneau 59 28 44 72 52 Luke Philp 60 27 44 71 22Tim Bozon 46 28 26 54 14Sam Reinhart 36 15 37 52 20Levi Cable 58 26 20 46 8Rinat Valiev 41 8 32 40 46Zak Zborosky 61 16 18 34 16Tyler King 57 8 22 30 31Austin Vetterl 61 10 18 28 52Matt Alfaro 61 9 19 28 28Jon Martin 45 7 14 21 73Troy Murray 61 3 14 17 26Ryan Chynoweth 60 4 11 15 39Cale Fleury 59 1 11 12 6Tanner Lishchynsky 24 1 10 11 24Vince Loschiavo 49 5 3 8 8River Beattie 54 4 4 8 29Bryan Allbee 45 3 4 7 12Tanner Faith + 19 1 5 6 29Lenny Hackman 51 1 3 4 0Dylan Overdyk 28 0 3 3 11Wyatt Hoflin 56 0 2 2 2Austin Wellsby 34 1 0 1 9

Goaltending StatisticsPlayer W L OT/SL SO GAA SPWyatt Hoflin 30 23 2 3 3.27 0.898 Keelan Williams 1 4 0 0 5.11 0.854

Wednesday, Feb. 25

Kootenay Ice at RegIna Pats

GAME TIME: 6 P.M. (MT)LAST MEETING: REG 3 at KTN 4 - OT (Jan. 30)

ICE vs. PATS (31-27-1-2) RECORD (33-19-4-3) Fourth (Central) DIVISION Second (East) Sixth (Eastern) CONF. Fourth (Eastern) 208 GF 218 221 GA 187 12th (20.7%) PP 21st (14.9%) T-8th (80.4%) PK 14th (79.6%) J. Descheneau (28-44-72) TOP SCORER S. Steel (15-34-49) W. Hoflin (3.27 GAA) TOP GOALIE D. Wapple (3.03 GAA) SL1 STREAK W3 7-6 SL at SCB LAST GAME 5-4 W at SAS Feb. 27 at BWK NEXT GAME Feb. 27 vs. MHT

Taylor rocc aSports Editor

The Kootenay Ice managed to scrounge one point in a 7-6 shootout loss on the road against the Swift Current Broncos Tues-day night.

With his team having blown a 5-2 lead in the third period of play, Koo-tenay Ice head coach Ryan McGill was not pleased with his group.

“To lose after you have a 5-2 lead going into the third period -- clearly, it’s acceptable for the group,” McGill said over the phone from Swift Current. “What are you going to do about it? You can’t do anything about it now.

“We were casual in our play from the start of the period to the end. We didn’t think that it was important enough for us to be urgent with the puck and, really simply, play the right way.”

The three-goal ad-vantage wasn’t the only multi-goal lead the Ice let slip away Tuesday.

After 20 minutes of play, Luke Philp, Tim Bozon and Jaedon De-scheneau had all tallied. A response from Tanner LeSann got the Broncos on the board, but the Ice carried a 3-1 advantage

into the first intermis-sion.

The Ice outscored the Broncos yet again in the second period, as Bozon registered his second of the evening and defenceman Tan-ner Lishchynsky scored his first as a member of the Ice with a pow-er-play goal in the final minute of the period.

Coda Gordon mus-tered the only goal for the Broncos in the sec-ond period and once again, the Ice carried a commanding lead -- this time 5-2 -- into the the second intermission.

Then it all came crashing in.

Gordon scored his second of the night 5:02 into the third period to make it a two-goal game.

With time winding down, Jake DeBrusk tal-lied his 36th goal of the campaign to pull the Broncos within one.

After a turnover deep in Swift Current territory, the Broncos took the puck the other direction on the strength of a three-on-two, odd-man rush. DeBrusk found de-fenceman Ayrton Nikkel up on the play and the 19-year-old Kelowna na-tive cashed in to tie the game 5-5 with 3:37 re-maining in regulation.

Less than a minute later, Ice forward Levi Cable made a nifty move down low before send-ing a wrist shot over the glove of Broncos goal-tender Travis Child, who came on in relief of Landon Bow after the Broncos starter allowed five goals on 18 shots.

Once again, the Ice led the Broncos, this time with 2:47 to play.

They refused to go away all night long, so why would a deter-mined Swift Current Broncos team pack it in at that point?

All it took was 1:22 before Broncos captain Colby Cave redirected a point shot to tie the game

6-6 and force overtime.After a scoreless extra

period and three rounds without a goal in the shootout, DeBrusk bur-ied a shot blocker side on Ice goaltender Wyatt Hoflin to put his team in the driver’s seat for the first time all night.

And it was all the Broncos needed.

Ice captain Sam Re-inhart had to score to keep the game alive in the fourth round of the shootout and despite beating Child with a smooth deke, the Buffa-lo Sabres prospect rang a backhand shot off the crossbar.

The comeback was complete.

The devastating 7-6

loss comes on the heels of three consecutive wins for the Ice, includ-ing a 5-0 shutout victory over the Spokane Chiefs Saturday night.

Once again, consis-tency continues to plague.

“[This] should have been ironed out a long time ago,” McGill said. “It’s a consistency issue within the room. We’ve got to get better every day and we’ve got to feel that it’s important to

string together some consistency and some wins.

“We had a 3-1 lead and a 5-2 lead and we were in control. We be-came casual. I think we thought it was going to be easy. I can’t speak for [the players] but that’s what I think.”

Hoflin managed 31 saves in facing 37 shots, while Child turned aside 15 of 16 pucks to earn the win in relief of Bow.

The Kootenay Ice re-

turn to action Wednes-day night as they visit the Regina Pats.

“We’ve got to play [Wednesday]. There’s no message right now,” McGill said. “If I need to send them a message right now, then I shouldn’t even be here.”

Notes: The Kootenay Ice went without D Rinat Valiev (flu), D Tanner Faith (shoulder), D Dylan Overdyk & F Aus-tin Wellsby Tuesday...

Taylor rocc aWith a 3-1 win over

the Creston Valley Thun-der Cats Tuesday night, the Kimberley Dynamit-ers return home with a commanding 3-1 series lead in their best-of-sev-en Eddie Mountain Divi-sion semifinal.

“It was a very similar game to all the other ones,” said Dynamiters head coach Jerry Bancks over the phone from the team bus after the game. “Tyson [Brouwer] played phenomenal. Special teams -- we scored on the power play, they didn’t. That was basical-ly the difference. Five-on-five it was pretty tight.

“They play a really defensive system and don’t gamble alot or give you a lot of room. We try to do the same thing, so it’s a very tight game.”

The stark difference

Tuesday night in Game 4 was the man between the pipes for the Thun-der Cats.

Brock Lefebvre had been stellar for his squad to this point in the series, but was forced out of ac-tion due to suspected injury ahead of Game 4. Mitch Martell took over the crease and put forth an equally strong perfor-mance.

“His last few games were pretty impressive. We know he is a great goaltender as well,” Bancks said. “It didn’t change a whole lot.

“He can play and it was another good goal-tenders battle tonight.”

Martell turned aside 23 of 25 shots against, while Brouwer stopped 22 of 23.

The teams exchanged first period goals, with Nitros forward Coy Pre-

vost tallying on the power play and Connor Ward responding mid-way through the period for the Thunder Cats.

Once again, the power play got it down for the Dynamiters as Eric Buckley cashed in for a 2-1 lead after 40 minutes.

Nitros forward Bra-den Saretsky rounded out the scoring with an empty-net goal one sec-ond before time expired.

The Nitros can ad-vance to the next round of the playoffs Thursday at the Kimberley Civic Centre. Puck drop for Game 5 goes at 7 p.m.

“We’ve got to keep sticking with what we’re doing,” Bancks said.

“A good solid effort. Guys blocking shots and playing hard for each other -- we’ve got to keep that going.”


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Winner of the November 2014 prize in the 2015 calendar is Charlene Rothwell. She received a prize package from Medichair. Medichair donated Airgo snow grabbers, Thermophore heating pad, a shoe horn and a medistik spray for pain relief. In picture from left to right: Charlene Rothwell and John Bain.

Tom FleTcherBlack Press

VICTORIA – When Andrew Wilkinson start-ed the year in his new job as advanced educa-tion minister, he knew B.C. universities hired lobbyists to pitch expan-sion plans to govern-ment.

Wilkinson was one of those lobbyists in his role as a lawyer in private practice, before being elected MLA for Vancou-ver-Quilchena in 2013.

Under attack for the second day in question period at the B.C. legisla-ture, Wilkinson said Tuesday the practice of universities hiring ex-pensive consultants to speak to the government that funds and regulates them should come to an end.

“It’s been abundantly clear since I took this role that access to my ministry and to me is un-limited for all the institu-tions,” Wilkinson told the legislature. He said he will advise all B.C. post-secondary institu-tions that they don’t need lobbyists, but as in-dependent institutions it will be up to them to de-cide.

On Monday, opposi-tion critics produced re-cords showing Kwantlen Polytechnic University

had paid consultant Mark Jiles $177,000 for “relationship building” with the government over several years. Jiles also worked on execu-tive compensation for Kwantlen, where school officials were paid unre-ported bonuses that broke government salary caps.

That controversy led to Wilkinson switching cabinet jobs with Sur-rey-Tynehead MLA

Amrik Virk, who was in-volved in the overpay-ments as a member of the Kwantlen board. The cabinet shuffle took place quietly in Decem-ber, after emails surfaced that contradicted Virk’s claims he was not in-volved in the overpay-ments.

On Monday, NDP ad-vanced education critic Kathy Corrigan de-scribed Jiles’ compensa-tion as “$15,000 a hand-

shake.” On Tuesday, NDP leader John Horgan went further.

“The $177,000 to Mr. Jiles translated into a $50,000 contribution to the B.C. Liberal Party from Mr. Jiles,” Horgan told the legislature. “The minister [Wilkinson] lobbied for Simon Fraser University. Is the minis-ter okay with $50,000 coming from the public back to the B.C. Liberal Party?”

Corrigan said Tues-day a similar arrange-ment saw lobbyist and “Liberal insider” Don Stickney paid $75,000 by Vancouver Community College.

Wilkinson is a former president of the B.C. Liberal Party who served as deputy minis-ter for economic devel-opment and intergov-ernmental relations with former premier Gordon Campbell.

Universities don’t need lobbyists, minister says

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Advanced Education Minister Andrew Wilkinson visits the Chilliwack campus of University of the Fraser Valley Feb. 20, part of a tour of institutions he began after being appointed in December.

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F e r dy B e l l a n d

“It’s been at least 15 years

since we performed in Cranbrook,” remarks v o c a l i s t - g u i t a r i s t George Millar of the Irish Rovers. “It’s nice to be back in the Koote-nays, so we can say hello and goodbye at the same time.”

The Irish Rovers will say Hello and Goodbye to their East Kootenay fans this coming Sunday, March 1, at Cranbrook’s Key City Theatre as part of their honest-to-good-ness Farewell Tour.

“It’s a bittersweet realization that here’s a half-century of the Irish Rovers coming to a close. The big prize at the end of any day for any band is being on-stage for those couple of hours. The people are there waiting for you, they’re there to see you. We’re going to miss that, of course,

but we’re not going to completely stop. We’ll still be playing some of the bigger folk festival — not the day to day travelling. We’ll still be releasing an album every 18 months or so. They’re not going to get rid of us quite that easily!”

Born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland in 1947, George Millar’s family emigrated to To-ronto, where he first formed the Irish Rov-ers in 1963 (along with his brother Will and cousin Joe) during the midst of the North American folk-music boom of the pre-Beat-les pop era. After estab-lishing themselves in the Yorkville Scene and the US West Coast as an enjoyable live act, the Irish Rovers signed with Decca Records in 1966 and soon became Canada’s most famous folk group (not least due to their hit version

their own internation-ally-syndicated CBC program (1971-1978), and enjoyed continual chart success into the 1980s with tongue-in-cheek country-rock crossover ditties such as “Wasn’t That a Party,” “No More Bread and Butter,” “Chatta-noogie Shoeshine Boy,” and “Grandma Got Run Over By a Rein-deer” (before returning to their more tradition-al Irish folk roots, where they remain).

Rather than allow-ing the Irish Rovers to deflate into a mere old-ies act, Millar remains as prolific a songwriter as he’s ever been, and he’s lost none of his tal-ent or his sass.

“There’s a song we wrote for the last CD called ‘Her Wonderful Ass.’ As it turns out, it’s a barnyard story at the end of the song; you’re not quite sure what it is until the end. I tell peo-ple that I wrote it for my wife ... but she doesn’t like me to say that too often! Just after Christmas, my wife and I went to Hawaii for a couple of weeks, just to get ready for the tour, and I wrote ten new songs there! I wasn’t sure if I could write Irish-style folk tunes in a tropical climate, but I write them down as they come.

“There’s different processes to songwrit-ing. With some people,

you have to sit down with a pad and a paper. With me, I usually just sit down with my guitar and something usually starts coming. Maybe somebody around you says something that has a catchy thing to it, and inspires you to think: that might be a good song! That’s the way it happens. I don’t try to decipher it too much. I just go with it.”

And the Irish Rovers intend on wrapping up their Farewell Tour in grand style.

“We’re working on a new live DVD,” says Millar. “At the end of the tour, we end up at the Port Theatre in Nanaimo. We’re film-ing the live show, and then we’re gong to Ire-land in May, and we’re going to do some out-takes to add to the per-formance. The whole band is going over, just to relax. We’ve rented an old castle down near Cork, and we’ll be there for five or six days. We’ll have a few cameras rolling, and whatever we catch that isn’t too rude, we’ll put into the DVD as extra parts.”

Millar and crew are taking a carefully thought-out approach to their Grand Global Goodbye.

“We just finished our Farewell Tour of New Zealand just be-fore Christmas, and we’re doing the rest of

Canada starting in No-vember. We’re covering the world, bit by bit, and it’ll take us the bet-ter part of a year to go everywhere we’ve played. I don’t want to sound like Che, who’s on her fourth farewell tour! Rather than be on the road for two years straight, like some big rock and roll band, we’re out four or five weeks at a time and take two or three weeks off in between. It’s much easier and nicer for us that way.”

Intriguing words from the Irish Rovers’ bandleader: during the group’s heyday, they developed a notorious reputation for outland-ish post-performance drunken debauchery that would even have made the maniacs in the Who sit up and take notice. Unlike the Who, however, the band-members of the Irish Rovers are all alive and well and seem no worse for wear. Per-haps it’s a testimony to their Hibernian hardi-ness.

“You become in-sane if you stay on the road for any length of time and you don’t go home. You need to go home and be normal for a few weeks, rather than living in vans and hotels and trying to play good shows. After a while, if you stay on the road too long, you become robotic. You

Farewell, but Not Goodbye The Irish Rovers’ Victory Lap

of Shel Silverstein’s “The Unicorn”).

The band hosted

just go through the mo-tions, and there’s no passion or spontaneity to the performance. That’s not what you want when people are paying good money. You want to be fresh and at your best, every night. That’s what we aim to do.”

This care and re-spect the Irish Rovers pay back to their fans comes back to Millar and crew in a seeming-ly unending series of enthusiastic audience response, concert after concert.

“All of the shows have been really good! We have a lot of fans who come up to us after the show, and we’ll sign autographs and talk with them. Some of them have tears in their eyes! So I have to say ‘hang on - it’s not the exact end!’ It’s not that we’re going to vanish. We’re still going to be around. There’s a bunch of De-troit fans who are flying out to Nanaimo to be part of the audience for the final concert! So all of the shows on the farewell tour have been memorable.”

And so a significant chapter in Canadian musical history comes to an end. Or, as Millar might say, the end of a new beginning. There’s no telling what the old rascal still has up his sleeves.

“After this many years, we’ve made so many friends and you have to say goodbye to them all. It’s a wee bit teary, but at the same time it’s bittersweet and wonderful. With-out the fans, we’d never have done this. We’ve been blessed that for 50 years we’ve been able to sing the songs we love to sing, to hang around with the same band, and at the end of the day we get paid to do it! It’s a wonderful world and a wonderful life that the fans have given us.

“We’ve had the freedom to do basically what we want, and if anybody is able to say at the end of the day that they really love their job, then they’re pretty happy people — and the Irish Rovers are Pretty Happy Peo-ple!”

The Irish Rovers’ farewell tour line-up

Cranbrook Daily Townsman, February 25, 2015

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