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Though we are offi-cially through Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee year, there are still more Diamond Ju-bilee medals to hand out. The Diamond Ju-bilee Medal was creat-ed as a national com-munity service award and many distin-guished Canadians have received one over the past year.

More medals were handed out this past Friday in Vancouver and Ottawa, and three

of them went to Kim-berley-connected peo-ple.

This round of med-als was focused on sport. Many athletes from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralym-pic games were hon-oured. Also honoured were those who have helped grow the Paralympic movement in Canada, and it is in this category that Annie Johnston, An-drea Carey and Josh Dueck are recognized.

BARRY COULTERWith files from Loree Duczek

Since 1973, the Cranbrook and District has honoured an individual who through his or her efforts has made Cran-brook a better place in which to live.

The Cranbrook and District Chamber of Commerce hosted a gala evening Saturday night at the Heritage Inn to celebrate Cranbrook’s 40th Citizen of the

Year, Jason Wheeldon, and to formally introduce its new board of directors.

The evening, hosted by Loree Duczek, started with the inauguration of the 2013 Chamber Board of Directors and the handing over of the gavel from outgoing Chamber President Lana Kirk to 2013 Chamber President Mike Adams.

Duczek was then joined by

D’Arcy Kennedy; together they provided an overview of Wheel-don’s community involvement, taken from the 19 nomination letters that were received.

Wheeldon’s nominators provided a history of an exten-sive career of volunteering. Representives of the Kin Club, Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Boys and Girls Club, the Cana-dian Mental Health Association – Kootenays and the Highlands

School Planning Council, all had a lot to say about Wheel-don’s commitment to Cran-brook.

“We wouldn’t be far wrong to call Jason ‘Mr. Cranbrook’, said Laurie Harris, with the Ca-nadian Mental Health Associa-tion. “He is one concerned citi-zen who very publicly supports our city and its citizens.”

COURTESY WALLY SMITH

Jason Wheeldon (front, centre), 2013 Citizen of the Year, joined previous Citizens of the Year for a photo opportunity at a gala event held at the Heritage Inn on Saturday, Jan. 26. Back row, left to right: Chris Ayling, Bud Abbott, Frank Sandor, Gordon Murphy. Front row, left to right: Loree Duczek, Jason Wheeldon, Nella Rounsville.

Wheeldon fêted at Chamber gala

ANNALEE GR ANTTownsman Staff

The province of B.C. has hired 45 new nurse practitioners, and one of them will find a home in Cranbrook with a very important new role to play.

The East Kootenay Regional Hospital will be the recipient of one of the new nurse practi-tioners (NP), who will begin work with the Ktu-naxa Nation Council once the candidate is chosen. The new NP will focus on First Nations primary health care,

with an emphasis on the Tobacco Plains Band, ex-plained Erin Toews, communications officer for Interior Health.

“The NP will be work-ing in outreach to rural communities, especially to the Tobacco Plains Band, assessing patients and facilitating access to appropriate primary care services for the Ab-original population,” Toews said. In total, Inte-rior Health will welcome six new NPs for the southern interior of B.C.

See WHEELDON , Page 3

Nurse Practitioner bound for Ktunaxa Nation Council

A boon for First Nations health

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A Diamond Jubilee medal for Dueck

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Brody rocks the house (twice) in Cranbrook return

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Dean Brody and his band, Sunday, Jan. 27, at the Key City Theatre in Cranbrook. Left to right: Jason Barry (guitar), Brody, Lyle Molzan (drums), Mark McIntyre (bass). Not pictured: Scott Galloway (keyboards).

Barry CoulterThe crowd of 600-

plus greeted Dean Brody like he was an old friend coming home. Actually, that’s really what he was.

Brody, originally from Jaffray, B.C., took to the stage at the Key City Theatre Sunday and Monday, “just a couple of walls away” from where he went to high school.

The concert was preceded by a sound effect that speaks to the deep heart of country music, and perhaps of the East Kootenay as well — the sound of a pick-up engine turning

over, accompanied by the whistling of birds, before bursting into a full-throated roar. It was an appropriate prelude for Brody and his band as they kicked off their show with “Dirt,” the title track from the album that’s currently riding high in the country charts.

Brody has matured as an artist and per-former since his last stop in Cranbrook — a mere two and a half years ago. Since then, he has released his third album, “Dirt,” and taken top recognition at the Canadian Coun-try Music Association Awards. He was fully engaged with his audi-ence at all times, charming and inti-mate, even when he and his band were in full flight (Jason Barry on guitar, Scott Gallo-way on keyboards, Mark McIntyre on bass and Lyle Molzan on drums).

“Me growing up here has provided me with so much inspira-tion,” he told the crowd Sunday night. “When I write a song I’m think-ing about you guys.”

Brody gave us a sonic tour through his discography including following up “Bob Mar-ley” from “Dirt” with a Bob Marley cover (“Three Little Birds”) — incongruously but somehow appropriate-ly. He then performed his new 2013 single, “Underneath the Apple Trees,” solo and acous-tic, before joining the rest of the band for an

acoustic, “campfire” set, created on part of the set of “Merchant of Venice.” Featuring Barry on dobro and Galloway on mandolin, Brody and the band brought a folksier, bluegrass feel to the evening for a few num-bers, before returning to the electric instru-ments for a set of rock-ers like “It’s Friday” and the current hit single “Canadian Girls.”

Brody may live on the other side of the country these days, but his pleasure at being “home” was indisput-able. As Brody pro-ceeds on his way across a nationwide-tour of sold-out shows, we can only express our plea-sure at his coming home for a short while. Can’t wait until next time.

The Small Town PistolsBrother and sister

duo Amanda and Tyler Wilkinson gave us a session of emotionally evocative, melodic country in the Nash-ville style, featuring soaring harmonies and Amanda Wilkinson’s powerful voice. The pair — formerly the band “The Wilkinsons” — have an impressive resumé in professional music, and ran through old and new songs, get-ting the audience jumping before Brody’s entrance.

Editor’s note: This piece is based on a viewing of Sunday

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Former Cranbrook Mayor Ross Priest spoke of Wheeldon’s commit-ment to community. “We worked in the same real estate office, and it was through those early years that I came to real-ize his deep commit-ment to the community and his passion for vol-unteering – pretty im-pressive for someone in his early 20s.”

Priest talked about Wheeldon’s time as chair of the Winter Lights Committee — the winter edition of Com-munities in Bloom — and the vast amount of time Wheeldon spent organizing Cranbrook’s involvement in that na-tional competition.

Mike Adams told of Wheeldon’s involve-ment in JCI Kootenay, in a mentoring capacity. He also mentioned Wheeldon’s role as an enthusiastic and popu-lar soccer coach, and organizer of activities for kids, like preparing his property to be a haunted house that was open to all children in Cranbrook this past Halloween.

Dana Osiowy, execu-tive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters, said Wheeldon has been an integral member of the volunteer team at Big Brothers Big Sisters for more than 18 years. “The fact that he has continued to focus on children in our commu-nity, even after having his own, is exceptional.”

Steve Rogers, Princi-pal at Highlands Ele-mentary School, said Wheeldon’s involve-ment with the School Planning Council ex-tends from helping de-velop plans to improve student achievement to plowing the sidewalks in front of the school.

Gord Johnson, of the Cranbrook Boys and

Girls Club, said “Jason was one of the most consistent and able board members. He has led by example and in doing so, has made a significant and positive contribution to our community.”

Wheeldon’s friend Warren Bedell, who along with Wheeldon spearheaded the turkey drive for the city on be-half of the Cranbrook and District Chamber of Commerce, gave a tongue-in-cheek speech that highlighted Wheel-don’s practical joker na-ture and the many pranks he has pulled over the years.

Phillip Jones spoke about Wheeldon’s pro-fessionalism at East Kootenay Realty and in the community as a whole, and provided a few funny stories of his own about Jason’s an-tics.

Former Sweetheart of Sam Steele Amanda Musso performed a song in tribute to the over 20 years of support he has given youth in the community.

Wheeldon then gave a gracious acceptance speech, saying how humbled he was by the honour. He also said he was not accepting the award on his own, but on behalf of everyone who had helped him along his journey. He paid special tribute to his family, including his wife Christy, their two daughters Brooke and Courtney, his mother and brother who were both in attendance.

As by tradition, Wheeldon posed with former Citizens of the Year who attended the ceremony — Bud Ab-bott, Nella Rounsville, Chris Ayling, Loree Duczek, Frank Sandor and Gordon Murphy.

Entertainment was

Wheeldon honoured, new board inaugurated

Photo courtesy Wally smith

The new Chamber Board of Directors: Back row, left to right: Dave Butler, Ken Dunsire, Chris Botterill, Dave Struthers, Allyson Blake. Front row, left to right: Lana Kirk, Ryan Gibbard, President Mike Adams, Elizabeth Ahlgren. Missing: Diane Baher, Leah Bradish, Tristen Chernove, Connor Stewart and Jeanette Sissons.

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The cast of the skit “If I Were Not A Realtor.”

provided by the Good Ol’ Goats, followed by a Chamber of Commerce organized skit “If I Were Not A Realtor,” featuring ballet dancers, bakers, seamstresses, conduc-tors, singers, athletes,

sumo wrestlers and pizza makers.

A humorous theme ran throughout the eve-ning, with several jokes played. Former Cham-ber President Melanie Fiorentino surprised

new President Mike Adams with a custom-ized portable stool to help him see over the lecturn.

And the Heritage Inn — the first place Wheel-don worked when he

moved to Cranbrook — had its own payback for Wheeldon. Over the years he has joked about the Heritage Inn skimp-ing on his dinner por-tion sizes. So staff pre-pared a huge, tri-

ple-sized serving of din-ner, and wheeled it across the ballroom floor to general hilarity. They also insisted on serving him three por-tions of dessert.

The Ministry of Health committed $22.2 million in May to the hir-ing of 190 new NPs over three years, under the Nurse Practitioners for British Columbia Pro-gram. This will be the

first round of hirings for the positions. The new NPs are expected to begin work as soon as possible.

Cranbrook was iden-tified in the first intake of the new program. In the

Ministry’s Summary of Approved Applications, it states that the Cran-brook Ktunaxa Nation Council would be a great fit for an NP.

“Their remote loca-tion makes it difficult to get urban appointments and there are no creden-

tialed health workers in the community. Through comprehensive patient assessments the nurse practitioner will facilitate the appropriate utiliza-tion of services for the Aboriginal population,” the summary reads.

An NP differs from a

registered nurse in that they have received a higher level of education, usually a Master’s degree or a Doctorate. They can be a patient’s sole health care provider, however in B.C. the NPs will work in more of a team environ-ment along with primary

care physicians. The goal is to identify and patch-up service gaps in the health care system, such as targeting Aboriginal peoples, the elderly or patients with mental health concerns.

NPs will also be able to admit and discharge

patients, working with physicians and other health care workers. B.C. is the second province in Canada to have qualified NPs able to admit and discharge patients.

Currently, up to 45 can be educated every year in the province.

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RDEK explores local agricultureAnnAlee Gr AntTownsman Staff

The Regional District of East Kootenay is switching its focus from the producers of agri-cultural products in the district, to those that sell those products and have other stakes in the industry in a new round of public consultation.

The RDEK Agricul-tural Plan Steering Committee is holding an open house on Feb-ruary 6 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Prestige Inn. An overview of agricul-ture in the East Koote-nay will be presented, the agricultural plan-ning process will be dis-

cussed and the floor will be open for questions. The intent is to gather feedback to be used in the RDEK’s Agricultural Plan, and to explore the issues and opportuni-ties that exist in the in-dustry. The session is similar to those held in October and November, but this time the RDEK is looking to draw in sec-ondary stakeholders in the agriculture industry, such as sellers and local food-related organiza-tions.

The committee has sent out a round of invi-tations to local organiza-tions like Wildsight, the local chambers of com-merce, the Cranbrook Food Action Commit-tee, the Cranbrook Farmer’s Market Soci-ety, the East Kootenay Invasive Plant Council, local meat shops, natu-ral food businesses and more. They also hope to have representatives from the district’s mu-nicipalities attend.

“We’re hoping we can get sort of a repre-sentative population,”

said Karen MacLeod, a planner for the RDEK.

MacLeod said the fall sessions were great, with lots of feedback coming in from producers of ag-ricultural products in the district.

“We had a lot of peo-ple who are actively en-gaged in agriculture,” MacLeod said.

But now the consul-tation period is shifting and they would like to hear feedback from the people who sell and deal in agricultural

products. MacLeod said the next round of con-sultation will help the RDEK “round out our knowledge.”

MacLeod said the in-formation session will hopefully allow the RDEK to better commu-nicate with those who have a less direct stake in the agriculture indus-try, but are still an im-portant part of the pro-cess.

“The intent is to focus on what the op-portunities are in agri-culture,” she said.

Right now the Agri-cultural Plan is still gath-ering feedback and being developed. It’s slated to be released at the end of June. The RDEK has pushed back the release, as they wait for the B.C. Ministry of Agriculture to release its inventory of agricultural land. That document is due to be released this month.

Once that crucial piece is available to the RDEK, they can finish up their own Agricultur-al Plan.

“We’ll be moving full steam ahead,” MacLeod said.

At the public infor-mation session, Ma-cLeod said they are hop-ing to have three surveys ready for each partici-pant to bring back to their organizations. One each will glean informa-tion from producers, consumers and retail-ers. The RDEK is also developing a newsletter to update people on the Agricultural Plan, but the surveys will be an important piece of the puzzle.

“The hope is to have them ready to roll by the time the meeting hap-pens,” MacLeod said.

Anyone interested in attending the February 6 meeting should contact Dave Struthers, East Kootenay Agricultural Plan Consultant, by Jan-uary 31 to RSVP. Call (250) 426-5300 ext. 208 or email [email protected]. The RDEK also has a website with informa-tion on the upcoming plan, at www.ekag.ca.

Need to know: What: RDEK Agricultural Plan open house

When: February 6, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Where: Prestige Inn

Who: Agriculture industry stakeholders and local food organizations

Annie Johnston, along with her hus-band Jerry, who re-ceived his Diamond Jubilee Medal last Oc-tober, has been instru-mental in the develop-ment of sport for the disabled in Canada, especially in skiing. Jerry is the acknowl-edged developer of ski-ing for the disabled in Canada, and Annie has been a passionate sup-porter of disabled ath-letes as well. She was honoured in the Build-er category.

Annie says she is

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Jerry and Annie Johnston with their Diamond Jubilee medals.pleased and humbled to receive the medal, and wonders how many couples can say each has a Diamond Jubilee medal. Because of his status as a mem-ber of the Order of Canada, Jerry received his medal from the Governor General last October.

Andrea Carey is the

daughter of Mike and Val Carey of Kimberley.

She grew up in Kim-berley, graduated from Selkirk Secondary and is now living in Victoria where she is the Direc-tor of Operations and Community Engage-ment at the Pacific In-stitute for Sport Excel-lence. She is a Director on the Board of the Ca-

nadian Paralympic Committee and it is in recognition of her work with this committee that she is receiving the medal. She is very ac-tive in promoting sport and fitness, and is in-volved in several orga-nizations to this end in Victoria.

“I am honoured to receive this distinction

and to share this event with such incredible company of athletes and builders in sport,” said Carey on receiving the medal. “Sport fuels our national pride and identity, and our Paralympic athletes tell that story with such passion and commit-ment. I am proud to be part of the Paralympic movement, and look forward to continuing to grow opportunities from the grassroots through to high perfor-mance.”

Dueck needs no in-troduction to Kimber-ley residents,having been a one-man high-light reel in recent years, with a Paralym-pic silver medal, world championship wins, X-Games gold medals, and of course his his-toric backflip in his sitski last year.

He is widely credit-ed for not only excel-ling as a disabled ath-lete, but as an example of living life to the full-est despite a disability.

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“Sport fuels our national pride and identity, and our

Paralympic athletes tell that story with such passion and

commitment.”Andrea Carey


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Chinese survey vessels go into the waters around the disputed islands and Japanese patrol ships tail them

much too closely. Twice last month Chi-nese maritime surveillance aircraft flew into the airspace around the Japanese-con-trolled islands and Tokyo scrambled F-15 fighters to meet them. On the second occasion, China then sent fighters too. Can these people be serious?

The rocky, uninhabited group of islets in the East China Sea, called the Sen-kaku Islands by Japan and the Diaoyu Islands by China, are worthless in themselves, and even the ocean and seabed resources around them could not justify a war. Yet both sides sound quite serious, and the media rhetoric about it in China has got downright bellicose.

Historical analogies are never exact, but they can sometimes be quite useful. What would be a good analogy for the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute? The dispute between the United Kingdom and Argen-tina over the islands that the British call the Falklands and the Argentines call las Malvinas fits the case pretty well.

Worthless islands? Check, unless you think land for grazing sheep is worth a war. Rich fishing grounds? Check. Poten-tial oil and gas resources under the sea-bed? Tick. Rival historical claims going back to the 19th century or “ancient times”? Check. A truly foolish war that killed lots of people? Yes, in the case of the Falklands/Malvinas, but not in the Senka-ku/Diaoyu Islands. Not yet.

One other difference: the Falkland Is-lands have been inhabited by some thou-sands of English-speaking people of Brit-

ish descent for almost two centuries. Ar-gentina’s claim relates to a short-lived colony in 1830-33 (which was preceded by somewhat longer-lived French and British colonies in the 1700s). Whereas nobody has ever lived on the Senkakus/Diaoyus.

Curiously, this does not simplify the quarrel. Neither China nor Japan has a particularly persua-sive historical claim to the islands, and with no resi-dent population they are wide open to a sudden, non-violent occupation

by either country. That could trigger a real military confrontation between China and Japan, and drag in Japan’s ally, the United States.

It was to avert exactly that sort of stunt that the Japanese government bought three of the islands last September. The ultra-nationalist governor of Tokyo, Shin-taro Ishihara, announced that he would use public money to buy the islands from their private Japanese owner, and the For-eign Ministry suspected that he would then land people there to assert Japanese sovereignty more vigorously.

The Chinese would probably respond in kind, and then the fat would be in the fire. But the Japanese government’s thwarting of Ishihara’s plans did not mol-lify the Chinese. The commercial change of ownership did not strengthen or weak-en either country’s claim of sovereignty, but Beijing saw it as a nefarious Japanese plot, and so the confrontation began to grow.

It has got to the point where Japanese business interests in China have been se-riously damaged by boycotts and violent

protests, and Japan’s defence budget, after ten years of decline, is to go up a bit this year. (China’s defence budget rises every year.) It’s foolish, but it’s getting be-yond a joke.

All this nonsense over fish and petro-chemical resources that would probably not yield one-tenth of the wealth that would be expended in even a small local war. Moreover, the oil and gas resources, however big they may be, will remain un-exploited so long as the seabed boundar-ies are in doubt. So the obvious thing to do is to divide the disputed territory even-ly between the interested parties, and ex-ploit the resources jointly.

This is what the Russians and the Nor-wegians did three years ago, after a de-cades-long dispute over the seabed be-tween them in the Barents Sea that led to speculations about a war in the Arctic.

The Japanese and the Chinese could obviously do the same thing: no face lost, and everybody makes a profit. So why don’t they just do it?

Maybe because there are islands in-volved. Nobody has ever gone to war over a slice of seabed, but actual islands, stick-ing up out of the water, fall into the cate-gory of “sacred national territory, handed down from our forefathers,” over which large quantities of blood can and must be shed.

China will not just invade the Senka-ku/Diaoyu Islands, because it is not run by a drunken and murderous military dictator (as Argentina was when it invad-ed the Falklands in 1982). But could ev-erybody stumble into a war over this stu-pid confrontation? Yes, they could.

Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist.

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VANCOUVER – Pre-mier Christy Clark wel-comed delegates to an international mining exploration conference Monday with a predic-tion of record invest-ment in the B.C. indus-try this year.

“Last year, as you know, was a re-cord-breaking year for mining exploration, $462 million,” Clark said in a speech that previews the coming election campaign. “Compare that to the 1990s, when $26 mil-lion a year in explora-tion was underway. We’ve come a long way in 12 years, and it’s pretty tough to beat those record-breaking years.”

She predicted that mark will be shattered with another 47 per cent increase, mostly due to a few large proj-ects underway now.

While exploration is up, five mining expan-sions are permitted to proceed in the prov-ince.

Clark touts growth at mining conferenceThey are: Endako

Mines’ molybdenum mine at Fraser Lake in Central B.C.; Teck’s Highland Valley copper mine at Logan Lake in the Okanagan; Huckle-berry Mine, an open-pit copper and molybde-num mine near Dease Lake in northwestern B.C.; Quinsam Coal, an underground thermal

coal mine on Vancou-ver Island; and Elkview, a Teck metallurgical coal mine near Spar-wood in the Kootenays.

Conference dele-gates applauded anoth-er recent development, the first mineral royalty sharing agreements with aboriginal people for Huckleberry Mine and New Afton, an ex-

pansion of a Kam-loops-area copper mine.

Clark also touted an improvement in permit approval times for land and water use as well as “notice of work” per-mits. The waiting time has been reduced from 110 days to 80 days, and another $7 million will be spent to get it down to 60 days, she said.

NDP mining critic Doug Donaldson said the B.C. Liberal govern-ment is still working to fix a problem it created, when mining permit time went from 55 days in 2007 to 110 days by 2011. The 60-day target for notice-of-work per-mits was supposed to be met in November, Donaldson added.

AssociATed PressTHE HAGUE, Netherlands —

Dutch Queen Beatrix announced Monday that she will abdicate on April 30 after 33 years as head of state, clearing the way for her el-dest son, Crown Prince Wil-lem-Alexander, 45, to become the nation’s first king in more than a century.

The announcement, in a na-tionally televised speech, sig-nalled an end to the reign of one of Europe’s longest-serving mon-archs, whose time on the throne was marked by tumultuous shifts in Dutch society.

“Responsibility for our coun-try must now lie in the hands of a new generation,’’ Beatrix said in the speech delivered from her

Huis ten Bosch palace just days before she was to turn 75.

“I am deeply grateful for the great faith you have shown in me in the many years that I could be your Queen,’’ she added.

The timing of the announce-ment makes sense at multiple levels. It comes just days before Beatrix’s birthday, and she is al-ready the oldest ever Dutch mon-arch: the pragmatic Dutch do not see being king or queen as a job for life. The nation also celebrates the 200th anniversary of its mon-archy, the House of Orange, at the end of this year, Beatrix said.

Observers believe she re-mained on the throne for so long in part because of unrest in Dutch society as the country struggled

to assimilate more and more im-migrants, mainly Muslims from North Africa, and shifted away from its traditional reputation as one of the world’s most tolerant nations.

Beatrix was also thought to be giving time for her son to enjoy fatherhood before becoming King Willem-Alexander: he has three young daughters with Ar-gentine investment banker Maxi-ma Zorreguieta.

The abdication also comes at a time of trial for Beatrix. This time a year ago she was struck by per-sonal tragedy when the second of her three sons, Prince Friso, was left in a coma after being en-gulfed by an avalanche while ski-ing in Austria.

Dutch Queen announces she is to abdicate

TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2013

Like a bad reality show about a dys-functional family, B.C. School Wars has lurched to life again for the 2013

election.Coming soon to billboards and buses

across the province: staged pictures of sad-faced kids crammed into dirty classrooms by a heartless government.

It doesn’t even matter which government. This rit-ual combat went on through Social Credit and NDP gov-ernments too.

Premier Christy Clark opened the new season with her promised pitch to restructure bargaining. It suggested splitting up bar-gaining into traditional wage and benefit talks, and a separate table and fund for classroom size and support.

Cast in her familiar role of the sullen, rebellious teenager, BCTF president Susan Lambert staged a news conference to dis-tort and mock the government’s offer.

A 10-year deal if we give up bargaining wages and classroom conditions? “Ludi-crous.”

What’s ludicrous is her characteriza-tion of a formula to link teacher pay to nurses, post-secondary faculty and other government workers. Nurses are re-nowned for getting raises when no one else does, so this should be an opportunity for these powerful unions to co-ordinate.

But the BCTF can’t get along with other

unions any more than it can negotiate with any discernible competence.

Lambert falsely claimed there was no consultation on the proposal. This re-minded me how she low-balled the costs of her union’s demands by hundreds of

millions during what passed for negotiations in last year’s strike season.

Behind the scenes, the BCTF executive and the school district bargaining agent had just settled on a mutual costing model. What this means is the school dis-tricts, which have to make

payroll and balance budgets, have con-vinced the BCTF to stop misrepresenting costs. I’ll believe that when I see it.

Before Education Minister Don McRae had even spoken, BCTF vice-president Glen Hansman was growling his reply on Twitter: See you in court. That message presumably also goes for premier-in-wait-ing Adrian Dix, unless he replaces the hated B.C. Liberals in May, then quickly kneels before the BCTF and extends the key to the provincial treasury.

Two generations of British Columbians have been bullied by this bad drama, since Bill Vander Zalm decided an industrial union bargaining structure was just the ticket for public schools.

Students are taught by example, if not by blatant propaganda in classrooms, that all problems are solved by demanding

more money from the government. After this conditioning, older students are sometimes pressed into service as union pickets.

There’s your Social Justice class, kids. Sorry about those sports teams and field trips, but we need those as bargaining chips to get more paid leave time.

To state the obvious, Clark and McRae staged this as a pre-election event to frame the issue. They knew their effort would be greeted as a declaration of war.

The main reason the BCTF agreed to a contract extension with a wage freeze last year? It wasn’t the blindingly obvious fact that every other public sector union had already taken two zeroes. It was strictly tactics.

The delay sets up the latest rematch of these old warriors in the spring election. The plan is to get the dreaded B.C. Liber-als out and then start working over the weaker, more union-dependent NDP.

That’s who caved in earlier and gave the BCTF broad control over staffing lev-els, the proverbial key to the treasury.

Along with basic math and economics, a point the BCTF seems unable to grasp is that its strategy is self-defeating. Those sad kids are making more and more parents seek a better deal.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and

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The Cranbrook Ea-gles Boxing Club had a successful showing in a tournament in Leth-bridge over the week-end, as two fighters brought home a gold and silver medal.

Dylan Clark was vic-torious in his one and only fight, even though he was schedule for two, while Josh Kapin-taniuk fought his way to the title bout, but came up short against his op-ponent.

What makes their showing impressive is the fact that this was the first time they’ve stepped into a competi-tive fight and have only been training since September, according to coach Tom White.

Clark, 12, handily won his fight by getting the upper hand early in the first round, spend-ing the following two being more mindful of technique and counter-ing attacks.

“We could’ve stopped the kids in the first round easily but because it was his first fight, I wanted him to get the experience of getting all three rounds in so he could get the feel of what it was like,” said White.

Clark is a natural athlete who has quickly learned the nuances of

boxing, which has come from training four days a week at the club, said White.

“He just catches on so quickly, his move-ment, his slipping and punches, his ability to just catch onto things that most guys take a couple years—he’s caught on in a couple months,” White said.

Clark was scheduled for two fights, but his opponent declined the

card after the Cran-brook fighter’s first fight, added White.

Kapintaniuk, 23, also had his first set of fights, beating the boxer favoured to win the tournament, but fell in the title fight to earn a silver medal.

“He just worked his jab and we had a good game plan going into the first fight, and he listened well and did it,” said White.

Kapintaniuk’s sec-ond fight was tougher.

“He lost focus in the first round, got away from the game plan and we got caught with a bunch of hard shots and it didn’t go our way,” White added.

The Eagles Club will be putting on a local bout in April, hosting the Golden Gloves tournament in the Cranbrook Curling Centre—the first time

it’s been held outside of Vancouver for a num-ber of years, according to White.

“We’re looking at putting on a big, big show and hopefully a good crowd-pleaser be-cause we have contact-ed guys in Montana and Washington,” said White. “We’ve got guys committing from Alber-ta and Saskatchewan already, so it’ll be pretty exciting.”

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ICE CHIPS: The KOOTENAY ICE enter this week’s action with a 23-25-2-0 record (14-12-1-0 at home, 9-13-1-0 on the road, 2-2 in overtime, 4-0 in shootouts) and in ninth place in the EASTERN CON-FERENCE and just three points out of the eighth and final playoff spot...

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DID YOU KNOW: MACKENZIE SKAPSKI has stopped 24 out of 25 attempts in shootouts this year...JOEY LEACH, who is the ICE all time franchise leader in plus/minus with a plus 91, played in his 250th WHL career game on January 23rd against MEDICINE HAT...LEACH needs to record three more assists to reach 100 in his WHL career...BROCK MONT-GOMERY, recorded his 100th WHL career point on January 23rd against MEDICINE HAT, who needs to record four more assists to reach 50 in his WHL career...TANNER MUTH played in his 200th WHL career game against the TIGERS on January 23rd (SEATTLE / SWIFT CURRENT / KOOTENAY)...

JAEDON DESCHENAU played in his 100th WHL career game on January 25th against MOOSE JAW...KOOTENAY is 12-2-1-0 when leading after the second period, 4-21-1-0 when losing after the second period and 7-2-0-0 when tied...The ICE are 14-7-1-0 when scoring the first goal of the game and 8-18-1-0 when their opponent scores first.

SCORING STREAKS: SAM REINHART (12-10-22) has recorded at least a point in his last 13 games...JAEDON DE-SCHENEAU (7-12-19) had his 12 game point streak end against MOOSE JAW on January 26....LUKE PHILP (1-2-3) has recorded a point in each of his last three games.

INJURY: TANNER FAITH will be out of the ICE line-up one to two weeks with an upper body injury.

ONE YEAR AGO: After 50 games of the 2011-2012 season the ICE were 27-15-4-4, after 51 games were 28-15-4-4 and after 52 games were 29-15-4-4.

UPCOMING WEEK:Tuesday January 29 Practice 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Western

Financial PlaceWednesday January 30 ICE @ Edmonton 11:30 am (102.9

FM – The Drive)Thursday January 31 ICE @ Red Deer 7:00 pm (102.9 FM

– The Drive)Friday February 1 Practice 3:45 pm - 5:45 pm Western Fi-

nancial PlaceSaturday February 2 ICE vs. Lethbridge 7:00 pm (102.9

FM – The Drive)UPCOMING COMMUNITY EVENT:-Kids Club Movie, February 3rd at 10:00 am. The Koote-

nay ICE will be watching a movie with members of the Kids Club.

-Power Skating, February 6th at 6:00 pm - 6:45 pm at the Memorial Arena. Members of the ICE will be helping with power skating.

-Power Skating, February 19th at 4:15 pm - 5:00 pm at the Memorial Arena. Members of the ICE will be helping with power skating.

-Special Olympics Bowling, February 25th from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm. Selected Kootenay ICE Players will be bowling with the Special Olympics group.

WEEK IN REVIEW:Wednesday, January 23 – Kootenay 3 vs. Medicine Hat 2

– Record 22-25-1-0 – Attendance: 2,280Goals:1 - Montgomery (19) from Reinhart and Descheneau2 - Montgomery (20) from Reinhart and Descheneau3 - Philp (15) from Descheneau and O’ConnorGoalie: Mackenzie Skapski (26 Saves, 2 GA)Friday, January 25 – Kootenay 2 @ Moose Jaw 3 - OT –

Record 22-25-2-0 – Attendance: 4,016Goals:1 - Shirley (7) from Leach and Philp2 - Reinhart (24) from DescheneauGoalie: Mackenzie Skapski (28 Saves, 3 GA)Saturday, January 26 – Kootenay 3 @ Regina 1 – Record

23-25-2-0 – Attendance: 4,573Goals:1 - Martin (6) from Vetterl and Reinhart2 - Reinhart (25) from Philp and Leach3 - Cable (6) from DirkGoalie: Mackenzie Skapski (22 Saves, 1 GA)

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Roy, with his stepson Dylan Clark, is joined by Tom White and Josh Kapintaniuk in representing the Cranbrook Eagles Boxing Club during a tournament in Lethbridge over the weekend.

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Eagles Boxing Club cleans up in LethbridgeObama hosts Miami Heat

to celebrate NBA titleWASHINGTON - President Barack Obama hon-

oured the Miami Heat for winning the 2012 NBA Championship title after falling short just a year be-fore.

“Everybody doing their part, is what finally put the Heat over the top,” Obama said, as he welcomed the team to the White House Monday to celebrate their victory.

The Heat defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder in five games in the NBA Finals last June.

The president also recognized the franchise’s work off the court. He thanked them for supporting military service members at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Obama said one of the things he’s proudest of is that many of the team members- in-cluding LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade- “take their roles as fathers seriously.”

“For all the young men out there who are looking up to them all the time, for them to see somebody who cares about their kids and is there for them day in and day out, that’s a good message to send,” Obama said.

Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said the team hopefully will serve as an inspiration to the nation of what can be done “when you come together and sac-rifice your egos for a greater goal” and “hard-hat work ethic.”

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P.K. Subban signs two-year contract with Canadiens

MONTREAL - Defenceman P.K. Subban will be rejoining the Montreal Canadiens after signing a two-year, US$5.75 million contract on Monday.

He will make $2 million the first year after having earned $875,000 last season on an entry-level con-tract.

Subban did not attend training camp and missed the first four games of the regular season while ne-gotiating with the NHL club.

The 23-year-old led the team in average ice time per game last season at 24 minutes 18 seconds.

He had seven goals and 29 assists in 81 games and was seventh among NHL defencemen with 205 shots on goal.

In his NHL career, the Toronto native has 21 goals and 55 assists in 160 games.

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