Kimberley Daily Bulletin, December 29, 2015

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ARNE PETRYSHENAnimal Alliance of

Canada is one of the project partners in the upcoming recently an-nounced mule deer re-location trial.

A trial project to translocate urban mule deer from four commu-nities in the East Koote-nay will begin later this winter. Mule deer will be live-captured in Elkford, Cranbrook, Kimberley and Invermere, and transported to winter range areas in the East Kootenay where natural non-urban mule deer populations have been in decline for several years.

Liz White, executive director of the organiza-tion, said they are look-ing forward to the proj-ect.

“As you know, we’ve been part of opposing

the deer culls that oc-curred in Elkford, Kim-berley, Cranbrook, In-vermere… over the last few years,” White said, adding that when the government decided they would look at non-lethal alterna-tives, Animal Alliance agreed to participate.

“So that’s what we’re doing in hopes that mu-nicipalities will begin looking at a variety of different non-lethal al-ternatives that I think will begin to help kind of deal with specific issues that culling clearly does not,” she said. “There are animals that they say are a problem, but there’s no guarantee that those animals are the ones being killed in the traps. It calls into question the efficacy of the culling.”

C ANADIAN PRESSVANCOUVER - Backers of a

proposed ski resort say the de-cision by British Columbia’s environment minister to sty-mie the project was inappro-priately affected by her friend-ship with one of the project’s most prominent critics.

Jumbo Glacier Resort has filed documents in B.C. Su-preme Court highlighting En-vironment Minister Mary Po-lak’s personal relationship

with Ktunaxa Nation chair Katherine Tenesse, a long-time opponent of the project.

They allege this impacted her decision not to renew a lapsed environmental assess-ment certificate for the contro-versial proponent.

The billion-dollar resort proposed for southeastern B.C. has been decades in the making and sparked fierce op-position from locals, First Na-tions and environmental

groups.Polak decided in June not

to renew Jumbo’s certificate because she found the project hadn’t been substantially started within five years of the environmental approval being granted, as is required by law.

But Jumbo’s submission appealing the minister’s deci-sion blames the government for delays in construction, say-ing the province dragged its feet in granting a development

agreement.A spokesman for the Envi-

ronment Ministry declined comment, saying it would be inappropriate to do so while the matter is before the courts.

The year-round ski resort project would be located about 55 kilometres west of Invermere and is designed to span just over one square kilo-metre and boast a hotel with 6,250 beds.

Animal Alliance looking forward

to relocation trial

BARRY COULTER PHOTO

A trial project to translocate urban mule deer from four communities in the East Kootenay will begin later this winter.

Jumbo appeals B.C. decisionCites friendship between Minister Mary Polak, Ktunaxa Nation Chair Katherine Teneese

BARRY COULTER PHOTO

Kim Bandet of Cranbrook is pictured aboard her new Harley Davidson 750 Street Motorcycle, down at Harley Davidson of the Kootenays on Friday afternoon, Dec. 24. Bandet was the second prize winner in Harley Davidson of the Kootenays’ annual raffle in support of Cranbrook and Kimberley Hospice Society. See more on Page 3. Brian Catinas of Victoria won third prize — a Harley Davidson bar table and chairs, and the first prize winning raffle ticket belonged to Herb and Gary Janzen of Wardner — who won the Harley Davidson Softail Deluxe.

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Barry CoulterThe Cranbrook Kim-

berley Hospice Society held its annual Harley Davidson raffle,on Thursday, Dec. 24, in conjunction with Harley Davidson of the Koote-nays.

Harley Davidson of the Kootenays on Cran-brook Street North was packed with ticket hold-ers, store staff and Hos-pice Society members, as the mayors of Cran-brook and Kimberley — Lee Pratt and Don Mc-Cormick — and MLA Bill Bennett made the draw for the three priz-es.

Brian Catinus of Vic-toria won third prize — a Harley Davidson bar table and chairs. Kim Bandet of Cranbrook, who was on hand for the drawing, won second prize — a Harley David-son Street 750. Herb and Gary Janzen of Wardner (who weren’t present) won the grand prize — a Softail Deluxe.

Harley Davidson of the Kootenays has held an annual raffle of their

iconic motorcycles for years, to help support local charitable groups. For the past three years, the Cranbrook and Kim-berley Hospice Society — which offers support services to individuals and their families who are dealing with death and dying — has been the agency.

Prior to the draws, special presentations were made to Jeanne and Don Davidson, long time Hospice Society or-ganizers, Society fund-raising coodinator Karen Grant,and Holly Hehr, of Harley David-son of the Kootenays, who has especially got-ten behind the raffle and support of the Hos-pice Society.

All in all, 2,500 raffle tickets were sold, 76 per cent of them in the last six weeks.

The Cranbrook and Kimberley Hospice So-ciety wanted to thank Harley Davidson of the Kootenays, the Harley Owners Group (HOG) and Bob Webb and Ken Betania, and ABC

Restaurant and the Tamarack Centre, who

display the bikes lead-ing up to the draw.

Harley raffle supports Hospice for third year

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Jeanne and Don Davidson were recognized for their efforts on behalf of Cranbrook and Kimberley Hospice on Thursday, Dec. 24, prior to the annual Harley Davidson raffle in support fo the Society. Left to right: Kimberley Mayor Don McCormick, Jeanne Davidson, Don Davidson, MLA Bill Bennett, Cranbrook Mayor Lee Pratt.

For the townsmanOn Thursday, Dec.

24, Cranbrook RCMP responded to eight motor vehicle collisions this date within Cran-brook city limits and on local highways.

Road conditions were a contributing fac-tor in all incidents but,

speed and aggressive driving were factors in some as well. Several people were treated for minor injuries.

Cranbrook RCMP urge the motoring pub-lic to slow down and prepare for hazardous road conditions at all times. Please give your-

self more time to reach your destination and ensure your vehicle is equipped for Winter driving.

Cranbrook RCMP are also looking for any infor-mation regarding three separate occurrences of spray painting that took place between 3 a.m. and

7 a.m. Thursday morn-ing.

The houses and Park-land School were victims of this vandalism.

Anyone observing suspicious people or ac-tivity in around this time are asked to call the Cran-brook RCMP at 250-489-3471.

Christmas Eve day sees rash of accidents, incident of vandalism

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Public Consultation:Proposed Amendment of Of� cial Community Plan

The City of Cranbrook is proposing to amend the City’s Of� cial Community Plan (OCP).

On December 7, 2015, City Council gave First Reading to “City of Cranbrook Of� cial Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 3843, 2015”.

The proposed Of� cial Community Plan (OCP) amendment will replace the current “Wildstone Neighbourhood Plan” with a new updated plan that re� ects the revised vision for the development of the Wildstone neighbourhood area. Speci� cally, the new plan will:

• Divide the lands into two separate subareas: 1. “Wildstone Subarea” for the areas surrounding the golf course and 2. Highlands Subarea for the lands lying west of Moir Park and provide development policy for each subarea.

• Establish a new phasing strategy for the development through the use of development blocks and associated policies for each Subarea;

• Establish minimum and maximum densities for each development block and for the development as a whole;

• Establish ‘development districts’ which will guide the type of development for each of the existing and future development pods;

• Establish a conceptual trail network for the development;

• Remove the lands legally described as Parcel A (See 10856I) of DL 2869, KD Except Parts included in Plans 13711 & 13938 (lands between Echo Field Road and Wildstone) from the neighbourhood plan area.

The Wildstone Neighbourhood Plan area encompasses approximately 298 ha of land in the northern portion of the City, as shown on the map below:

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If you require more information or wish to comment on the proposed amendment of the Of� cial Community Plan, please contact Mr. Rob Veg, Senior Planner at Tel: (250) 489-0241, or Fax: (250) 426-2010 or email at [email protected].

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White hopes the government will get on board with the alterna-tive methods, as it is up to it to change the pro-vincial regulations to allow alternatives to culling.

White said that the government agreeing to participate in the relo-cation pilot is a good indication that the gov-ernment may be open-ing up to the idea.

“This is a program

that requires engage-ment by government officials in terms of al-lowing use of effects on deer that would not or-dinarily be allowed, like using drugs on them to tranquilize them and that kind of thing,” she

said, adding the provin-cial veterinarian also has to be involved.

Animal Alliance is assisting in the pur-chase of radio collars for the relocation study.

The collars will allow for the relocated to be

monitored. That will allow the whole thing to be evaluated.

White said it has been quite difficult dealing with the gov-ernment on these is-sues in the past.

“There has been over a period of time, resistance to alterna-tives,” she said, noting that Kimberley had ap-plied a number of years ago to try hazing and got permission for a one-off trial.

White said hazing has to happen in a much more planned and coordinated way to work effectively. She added it needs to be

allowing people to feed deer.

“Most municipali-ties, Kimberley being the exception, have a bylaw but don’t enforce it,” she said.

White also said that killing the deer doesn’t solve the issue of urban deer.

“If you look at the numbers, I think they’ve had four culls and really the number of mule deer they’ve counted has not gone down substantially,” she said. “It just doesn’t work.”

She noted Animal Alliance was disap-pointed that Cranbrook proceeded with a cull earlier in 2015.

White said she will be coming to the area to observe the relocation.

“It’s a whole coordi-nated thing and a whole bunch of people who haven’t really got along very well together in the past are all kind of working together, it’s kind of nice,” she said.

Animal Alliance keen on relocation trialContinued from page 1

combined with other techniques, such as not

Barry Coulter

Thinking about moving on.


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ONGOINGMasonic Lodges of B.C. and Yukon will supply transportation to cancer patients who have arrived at Kelowna or Vancouver. This free service will be at the destination point. Example: from airport to clinic and clinic to airport on return, also around the destination city. Info may be received from your doctor, Canadian Cancer Society, or by phoning Ron at 250-426-8159.MILITARY AMES is a social/camaraderie/support group that meets the fi rst and third Tuesdays of the month in the Kimberley Public Library reading room. All veterans are welcome. For more information call Cindy @ 250 919 3137.Canadian 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.cancervolunteer.ca and register as a volunteer.Mark Creek Lions meet 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at the Kimbrook. Meet & Greet from 6:00-6:30pm, supper 6:30-7:00, meeting 7:00-8:00pm. Contact 250-427-5612 or 250-427-7496. New members welcome – men and ladies! The Cellar Thrift Store Open Mon. to Sat., noon to 4:30 p.m. Our revenues support local programs and outreach programs of Cranbrook United Church. Baker Lane Entry at 2 – 12th Ave. S. Cranbrook, B. C. Donations of new or gently used items welcome.The Cranbrook Quilter’s Guild meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month, September - June, 7.15 p.m. at the Cranbrook Senior Citizens Hall, 125-17th Ave South. Interested??? Call Jennifer at 250-426-6045. We’re on Facebook and www.cranbrookquiltersguild.ca.Quilters meet in Kimberley on the 2nd Monday at Centennial Hall at 7:00 PM and the 4th Monday for sewing sessions in the United Church Hall at 10 Boundary Street.Hey Kimberley! We need you as Big Brothers and Big Sisters. One hour a week. YOU can make a diff erence in a Child’s life that will last a life time. Info: 250-499-3111.Cranbrook Community Tennis Association welcomes all citizens to play or learn to play. Call Neil 250-489-8107, Cathy 250-464-1903.Enjoy Painting? Join ArtGroup 75, Fridays 1pm-4pm, Sept. - June. Seniors Hall, Cranbrook. 125. 17th Ave. S.Cranbrook Phoenix Toastmasters meet every Thursday, noon -1:00 Heritage Inn. Toastmasters teaches communication & leadership skills. Roberta 250-489-0174. 1911.toastmastersclubs.org.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.comRoyal Canadian Legion Branch 24; Friday Meat Draw: 4:30-6:30, Saturday Meat Draw: 3:30-5:30. BINGO at the Kimberley Elks – Mondays, 6:30 start. All welcome.The Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation invites anyone expecting bone and joint surgery to make contact with local volunteers for peer support. The free Ortho Connect program helps to ease the fear, stress and anxiety that go along with surgery and help patients prepare. 1-800-461-3639 ext 4, and ask for Lauralee.Do you have the desire to stop eating compulsively? Overeaters Anonymous (a 12-Step Program) meets Wednesdays, from 7-8pm at Cranbrook United Church, 2-12th St. S., downstairs. Contact: [email protected] (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) non profi t weight loss support group meets EVERY Thursday at 5:00 pm, at Sr Citizen’s Centre, (downstairs) 125 17th Ave S, Cranbrook. Drop in, have fun while losing weight gradually. This Chapter has won an annual B.C. Provincial Award for “Best Avg Weight Loss Per Member”. Info: Marie 250 417 2642Bibles 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.Thursdays from 5:00 to 6:00 pm; Focus Meat Draw at the Elks Club, Kimberley. Proceeds to Emergency Funds and non-profi t organizations.

UPCOMINGKimberley Aquatic Centre FREE FAMILY SWIM: Wednesday, Dec. 30, 6:00-7:00pm is sponsored by Hospital Employees Union, Kimberley Local. Persons 18 years & younger must be accompanied by an adult.Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour Sponsored by Wildsight at Key City Theatre, Saturday, January 2 at 7:30 pm. Tickets $30 online or at Key City Theatre box offi ce. New reserved seating.Know someone who is a literacy champion in Cranbrook or Area C? Nominate them as Cranbrook’s 2015 Literacy Champion. Nominations close January 20th and the winner announced January 27th at the Family Literacy Day celebrations. For more info call Katherine 250-420-7596 or [email protected] or on Facebook: Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy Cranbrook.Adult or Senior? Want to learn or improve your computer skills? CBAL Cranbrook off ers a 6 week introductory computer course starting Jan 29th. Pre-registration a must. Call Katherine 250-417-2896, space is limited.

1. If you could bring anything to the East Kootenay that isn’t already here, what would you bring and why?

Waterslides, and I’m not talking some fun little “roundy-bout”, I’m talking the kind that is scary enough to keep the P in pool.

2. Least favourite Cranbrook/Kimberley street

Northbound 95A3. Favourite Cranbrook/Kimberley

StreetSouthbound 95A4. If you were to become Cranbrook

urban wildlife, would you rather be a deer or a skunk?

Unless I make really poor decisions in life I’m going to assume that this is a hypo-thetical question, in which case I must reply with, both. Ideally I’d be the size and antlers of the deer along with the fur coat and the ability to stand on my front hooves from the skunk. It would be truly terrifying.

5. If the East Kootenay should become its own country, where should the capital be?

I think our bigger issues would be all the events that lead to us becoming our own country. I think it’s more likely that we’d end up encased in a dome like the Simpsons movie due to something hap-pening to our deer, possibly attributed to a radioactive cross breading with skunks.

6. One person, living or dead, you’d like to have an alcoholic beverage with?

My recently deceased grandmother, whisky with water, you never know when you’re visit will be the last. Go hug your loved ones, right now, read the rest of this later.

7. Should the million-gallon swimming pool that was buried in Baker Park be ex-humed and put back into action?

Absolutely, we have no great swimming venue where people can socialize and cool down outdoors.

This should probably be major cam-paign issue in the next election and if someone wants to make it happen, they’ve

got my vote.8. What’s a great new idea for Cran-

brook/Kimberley tourism?So there are these things, they’re shaped

like a tube (open and enclosed), that are positioned at great heights and have water flowing through them. What you can do is enter these tubes, assisted by stored poten-tial energy accelerated towards a catch-ment at the bottom all the while screaming in joy. They’re called waterslides and we need them. Need.

9. Favourite Cranbrook/Kimberley his-torical figure.

Chippy, the former mall mascot of the Cranbrook Mall. If you’ve seen Chippy lately, please let me know.

10. Have you ever been in a hockey fight? If yes, describe.

I’m Canadian. What kind of question is that?

11. Sports car or pickup truck?Sports car, but with a lift kit for practical

reasons, I live on 11th.12. Favourite season of the year and

why?No one likes winter. We poorly divided

the continent, East / West is far better than North / South

13. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

A Triceratops.14. If you could tell a visitor to the East

Kootenay anything, what would you say?We’re more than just fast food and mo-

tels, we have an amazing ______ and soon to have waterslides!

15. Have you ever had an encounter with wildlife in the East Kootenay? If yes, describe in a sentence.

You’ll never believe this, but once I saw a Cheetah riding a baby elephant through the forest. Craziest thing.

16. Is a hot dog a sandwich? Why?I’m not sure, on one hand a sandwich

can be just a piece of bread and a slice of sad deli meat and that qualifies. On the other hand, a hot dog is far too regal to be insultingly categorized with the aformen-tioned “sandwich”, or maybe that should be called a “Sadwich”. Personally, I prefer a hotdog with everything over a sandwich any day, except a proper grilled cheese, which is also too regal to be a sandwich. That however is another debate of it’s own.

17. Favourite movie of all time? Why?Snatch. Guy Ritchie is one of those

amazing directors that can tell a story like no other. Once you watch it, you’ll see that it’s one of the greatest movies of all times. Just, be mindful when you ask the clerk or a friend if they have it.

18. Are you tempted to feed the deer on a cold day, even though you know it’s wrong?

(Sung) “It’s the circle of life and it moves us all...”

19. Can you name one significant date in Cranbrook/Kimberley history?

June 30th, 198220. Favourite time of day to fly out of the

Canadian Rockies International Airport?Mornings, usually my flights out of here

mean a connection in Calgary or Vancou-ver with one or two more connections. Flying out in the morning decreases the possibility of having a 4+ hour layover in some far flung airport over night.

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Medical Services Plan pre-miums, electricity bills and vehicle insurance rates are up in 2016, reviving criticism of the B.C. government’s con-stant boast about keeping taxes low.

MSP premiums rise from $144 to $150 as of Jan. 1, for a family of three earning more than $30,000 a year. For a sin-gle person in the same income group, the rate goes from $72 to $75, with lower rates for lower incomes down to $22,000 a year, where premi-ums drop to zero.

B.C. is now the only prov-ince in Canada with a health care fee, and it has risen about 40 per cent since 2010. Pre-mier Christy Clark has de-fended the fee as a signal to citizens about the enormous cost of providing health care.

BC Hydro rates have been politically dictated since Clark and Energy Minister Bill Ben-nett intervened to cap rate in-creases in 2013. Hydro rates jumped six per cent after the 2013 election, and are capped at no more than four per cent for 2015 and 2016, after which Bennett has promised to re-turn rate-setting authority to the independent B.C. Utilities Commission (BCUC).

Insurance Corporation of B.C. basic vehicle insurance went up by 5.5 per cent on Nov. 1, an increase still subject to review by the BCUC. That works out to an increase of $3.70 per month added for the average driver.

ICBC had proposed the maximum 6.7 per cent in-crease to cover increasing costs of personal injury claims and fraud, but the province gave it permission for a one-

time transfer of $450 million from its optional insurance business to subsidize the basic rate.

In a year-end interview, NDP leader John Horgan stopped short of promising to eliminate MSP premiums, but he called it a “regressive tax” that would be part of a broad review of B.C. taxation fairness if he wins the 2017 election.

The Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation says people who benefit from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s promised middle-class tax cut will see most of those savings eaten up by provincial and municipal tax increases.

Trudeau vowed to reduce the federal income tax bracket between $45,282 and $90,563 from 22 per cent to 20.5 per cent, and increase the rate for income over $200,000 from 29 to 33 per cent. The change

would provide up to $2,000 in tax relief for middle-income earners, with dual-income households benefiting most, CTF federal director Aaron Wudrick says.

Municipal taxes are expect-ed to increase across the prov-ince in 2016, with local coun-cils preparing to set budgets for the new fiscal year that starts April 1. Port Alberni has proposed a seven per cent in-crease, and the CTF says it hasn’t found any B.C. munici-palities yet that propose to freeze or lower property tax rates.

With the rapid rise in prop-erty prices continuing in parts of the Lower Mainland, the B.C. Assessment Authority sent out 37,000 letters in De-cember, warning single-fami-ly homeowners to brace for a big jump in their assessed value.

Hydro, ICBC, MSP fees up in 2016

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If the Taliban were not so busy fighting the rival Islamic State jihadis who began operating in Afghanistan

early this year, they might now be within reach of overthrowing the Afghan govern-ment that the Western powers left behind when they pulled out most of their troops last year. Even with that distraction, the Tali-ban are doing pretty well.

On Monday, Dec. 21, a Taliban suicide-bomber on a motorcycle managed to kill six American soldiers who were patrolling the perimeter of Bagram air base near Kabul. On the same day Taliban fighters took almost complete control of Sangin in Helmand province, a town that over 100 British troops died to defend in 2006-10.

As Major Richard Streatfield, a British officer who fought at Sangin, told the BBC: “I won’t deny, on a personal level, it does make you wonder — was it worth it? Be-cause if the people we were trying to free Afghanistan from are now able to just take it back within two years, that shows that something went badly wrong at the oper-ational and strategic level.”

It was probably a mistake to invade Af-ghanistan in the first place. Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorists could have been dealt with without invading an entire country, and there was never any evidence that the Taliban government of the day knew about his 9/11 attacks on the United States in advance.

Having invaded the country, it was a mistake not to hand it over to a tough re-gime made up of warlords from the major ethnic groups and get out before the pres-ence of over a hundred thousand foreign troops gave the Taliban a second wind. Trying to create a Western-style liberal democracy in Afghanistan was even more naive than the previous Soviet project to

build a modern, secular, “socialist” one-party state in the country.

The 19th-century British army and the 20th-century Russian army could both have told them: it has always been easy to invade Afghanistan, but it has always been hard for foreign troops to stay there more than a couple of years.

And having made those mistakes, it was another mistake to pull almost all the foreign troops out be-fore the Afghan govern-ment’s army was up to holding the Taliban off. If, indeed, it can ever be brought up to that level.

The parlous state of the Afghan Nation-al Army and the sheer fecklessness of Pres-ident Ashraf Ghani’s government was highlighted by last weekend’s desperate plea by Helmand’s deputy governor Mo-hammad Jan Rasulyar for supplies and re-inforcements for the troops holding Sangin.

It’s not just that the army had neglected the plight of those soldiers. It’s the fact that Rasulyar had to resort to posting his plea on Facebook to get the government’s at-tention.

Part of the problem is that the govern-ment and the army high command are profoundly corrupt. For example, up to a quarter of the army’s troops are “ghost sol-diers” who only exist on paper, so that offi-cers can draw their pay.

The worse problem is that President Ghani, a former senior official at the World Bank, only won last year’s election by mas-sive fraud. Conflicts with the aggrieved losers have left the government paralysed: twenty months after the election, there is still not even a permanent defence minis-ter.

Morever, Ghani believes that a decisive military victory over the Taliban is impos-

sible. This is probably correct — but he is therefore committed to cultivating close ties with Pakistan in the hope that In-ter-Services Intelligence, the Pakistani equivalent of the CIA, will deliver the Tali-ban to the table for peace talks. (Most Af-ghans believe that ISI controls the Tali-ban.) But Ghani is wrong on two counts.

The Taliban have no reason to agree to a power-sharing peace settlement, since they can still hope for an outright military victory. And Pakistan doesn’t really control the Taliban, although it gives them a safe haven and can manipulate them to a limit-ed extent. There were preliminary peace talks early this year, but there has been nothing since July.

The Afghan army would be collapsing a good deal faster if so much of the Taliban’s attention were not focused on fighting off the challenge from Islamic State. (It has killed at least a thousand IS fighters this year.) But the Taliban still managed to seize the city of Kunduz in the north for a week in September, and now Sangin in the southwest is going.

We are seeing the usual short-term re-sponses in the West. President Obama has halted the withdrawal of most of the re-maining 9,800 US troops in the country (which was scheduled for the end of this year), and Britain has ordered ten of the 450 troops it still has in Afghanistan back to Sangin.

But that won’t make much difference, and there is no chance whatever that the NATO countries will build their troop strength in Afghanistan back up to the level — around 140,000 — where it was five years ago. The Afghans are on their own now, and they will be lucky if they end up back under the rule of the Taliban rather than in the clutches of Islamic State.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist published in 45 countries.

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Ice forward Zak Zborosky (#22) fires a shot in on Hitmen goaltender Nik Amundrud Sunday evening. Amundrud was steady, turning aside 27 shots to earn his first shutout of the season.

Taylor rocc aThe holiday break

might have provided the Kootenay Ice with some much needed respite from the rink, but it wasn’t enough to spark a fire strong enough to torch a 12-game losing streak.

Sunday night, the Ice returned to Western Fi-nancial Place for the sec-ond half of the 2015-16 season and, in many ways, picked up right where they left off prior to Christmas in dropping a 4-0 decision to the Cal-gary Hitmen, extending a season-high winless skid to 13 games.

“We can’t sugarcoat everything just because guys are emotionally fragile,” said Luke Pierce, head coach of the Koo-tenay Ice, Sunday night. “You’ve got to grow up and be accountable for mistakes. We’re not here to degrade anybody, we’re here to help make them better and im-prove. That’s the way [the players] have to look at the mistakes.

“We broke out of our zone fairly good when we wanted to go the right way. When we want to turn back and go towards our own end, it doesn’t work. There were some good things and we’ll talk about them, but we’ll also highlight the mis-takes we made.”

There was no short-age of mistakes Sunday in front of 2,167 fans at Western Financial Place.

“A couple mistakes in the first period cost,” said Ice defenceman Troy Murray. “We just couldn’t seem to bury our chances. If we had done that, it might have been a whole different game.

“It’s always tough on a long losing streak like that. We’ve just got to come together as a team and work as a team. That’s how we’re going to win games.”

Pierce has stressed the importance for his team to take care of areas of the game that are within their control, such as penalties, turn-overs and compete level.

Penalties and turn-overs were definitely costly for the Ice during the first period and there was no clawing back after the opening

20 minutes of play.Ice forward Austin

Gray was saddled with an interference minor only 2:05 into regula-tion, giving a high-pow-ered Hitmen squad an early opportunity on the man advantage.

The rookie forward had barely found his seat in the penalty box as only 10 seconds elapsed before Hitmen forward Jakob Stukel drove the puck from below the goal line, walking alone in front to tuck a pow-er-play effort past Ice goaltender Wyatt Hoflin.

Stukel’s effort, his 20th goal of the cam-paign, stood as the game-winning tally.

While an early mark-er created a hole in the opening moments of the game, albeit a small one, it was a late first-pe-riod dagger that really struck the Ice in the first 20 minutes of play.

As the Ice attempted to break out of the de-fensive zone, a turnover in the left face-off circle landed on the stick of Hitmen pivot Jordy Stal-lard with the final min-ute of regulation furi-ously winding down.

The 18-year-old na-tive of Brandon, Man., deftly shifted gears from back check to attack, skating in on Hoflin be-fore roofing a nifty back-hand shot over the shoulder of the overage goaltender for a 2-0 Hit-men lead. The final goal of the first period came with only 33 seconds re-maining in the period.

The Hitmen did the rest of their damage in the second period and it was debilitating.

With the game still 2-0, Ice centre Matt Alfa-ro took a long stretch pass in alone, unable to lift the puck over the out-stretched leg of Hitmen goaltender Nik Amun-drud, who was tested in difficult fashion for the first time on the evening. Following up on the play, Jesse Zaharichuk sent a close range zinger toward the Hitmen net, but Amundrud was there to make a second consecutive shorthand-ed save of significance.

Moments later, that burst from the Ice was all but gone.

“At 2-0 we had the chances shorthanded and then another real

good shift,” Pierce said. “Then they score a soft one. Hof knows he’s got to have that. That one really hurt us.”

Hitmen left winger Carsen Twarynski cruised over the blueline sending a long-range shot, seemingly harm-less, towards the Ice net. A soft thud at the back of the cage sucked the wind out of the building and the Ice bench as the 18-year-old Twarynski scored his 10th of the season to give the visi-tors a 3-0 edge, effective-ly eliminating any mo-mentum that had been mustered by the Ice.

The wound had salt thrown in it during the final five minutes of the second period.

Hitmen left winger Taylor Sanheim used speed through the neu-tral zone, executing a smooth outside-in deke to twist Ice defenceman Dylan Overdyk into a knot. Burning by the be-wildered Overdyk, San-heim cruised in alone and beat Hoflin to com-plete the scoring, giving the Hitmen a 4-0 lead.

The 18-year-old Amundrud was called upon to make some big stops as the Ice tried to get something going during the final 20 min-utes, but there was noth-ing doing as the native of Melfort, Sask., made 27 saves to record his first shutout as a member of the Calgary Hitmen.

Amundrud’s steady performance was helped along by a Hit-men blueline that didn’t seem hampered much by the absence of Travis Sanheim, who is off rep-resenting Team Canada at the World Junior Hockey Championship.

Jake Bean was an ac-tive presence, jumping into the play to create a handful of offensive op-portunities, all while tak-ing care of business at his own end of the rink.

The 17-year-old Cal-gary native finished the night with one assist and a plus-3 rating.

A big, experienced overage pairing of Kee-gan Kanzig and captain Colby Harmsworth left no room to operate for the Ice offense.

“You have to put the puck where the ice is and the ice is in behind them,” Pierce said of

game-planning around the big, experienced de-fence corps of Calgary. “They’re big, they’re lanky, they like to step up and be aggressive. That means there’s space be-hind them. Putting a puck on the net is never a bad play. The chances we had were from loose pucks, shots off the walls. But we’ve still got some guys that think they’ve got a better idea of how to stickhandle through a Kanzig or a Harmsworth. You’re not going to do it.”

At the other end, Hoflin steered aside 29 of the 33 shots he faced.

The Ice (6-29-2-0) and Hitmen (23-13-1-1) were right back at it Monday, with the re-match slated for 7 p.m. at the Scotiabank Sad-dledome in Calgary. Re-sults from Monday were unavailable prior to press time.

See the Townsman for an update this week.

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December 29, 2015

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DJANGO is a year and a half old plott hound cross. He has lots of energy and would need daily exercise. He has been introduced to hunting but doesn’t have much interest in the chase. Djando is good with most other dogs but hasn’t been introduced with cats. He is happy to meet everyone as long as your willing to give him lots of love!

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CHARLIE is an amazing, lively, loving German Shepherd/King Shepherd. He is just over 1 year old and is crate trained and knows sit and stay. Charlie enjoys long walks but does need some leash training. He is an intelligent boy and will enjoy learning. Charlie will excel in a very active household who have lots of time to devote to exercise, training and love.

I need a home.TANK is a handsome big boy. He is a Blue Nose Pitbull and is 5yrs old. He loves people and is like a big teddy bear, but has not been socialized very much with other animals. We will be working on this in the shelter. He walks extremely well on a leash but will need a strong handler. Tank needs regular exercise and lots of love. He will make a wonderful companion.

SPCA Recycle ProgramFor pickup, call 250-489-2450Richard & Gail Ballance3925 53 St. S, Cranbrook

I need a homeI need a homeLUMBERTON is a big 3 year old boy, he is all black with short hair. Lumberton loves being outdoors to do his hunting! He is friendly and loves being pet but doesn’t like being held. Lumberton would do best in a home with no other cats but is very good with dogs.

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I need a home.

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SQUEAKERS is a 8 year old short haired torbie. She has an amazing personality and a funny looking tail to top off her cuteness! She is very sociable and affectionate. Squeakers has lived happily with another cat, a bird and children. She would need to only be an indoor cat as she has never been outdoors.

I need a home.I need a home.DIESEL is a 4 year old neutered male. He is a German Shepherd cross. Diesel is a wonderful gentle boy who is look-ing for a home where he can have lots of attention and exercise. He has a strong prey drive so will need to be walked on a leash and have a fenced yard. He likes people and other dogs.If you think he could � t into your family please come and visit him at the shelter.

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East Kootenay SPCA honoured as 2015

Branch of the YearEast Kootenay SPCA honoured at annual BC SPCA Awards Ceremony

The BC SPCA’s East Kootenay Branch in Cranbrook was honoured as Branch of the Year at the BC SPCA’s 120th Annual General Meeting in Richmond on May 2, 205.

“Since taking over 18 months ago, manager Brenna Baker has led the branch in a transformation that is nothing short of remarkable,” says Lorie Chortyk, general manager of com-munity relations for the BC SPCA.

“The dynamic team of staff and volunteers has worked tire-lessly to increase public awareness and support for the branch through media and community events; they’ve increased op-portunities for youth education, including enhanced summer camps; and they have successfully secured funding to com-plete shelter renovations to improve the health and welfare of animals in their care.”

Chortyk notes that in 2014, Brenna and her team managed to transfer an astounding 111 cats and kittens to areas of the province where they would have a better chance of adoption.

“While the branch used to have one of the lowest live release rates in the province due to massive pet overpopulation in the region, the East Kootenay branch now boasts a 94 per cent live release rate — a truly incredible achievement.”

Chortyk says the East Kootenay staff and volunteers go above and beyond in everything they do, which is refl ected in the amazing results seen at the branch.

“They truly deserve to be honoured as our 2015 BC SPCA Branch of the year.”

Kimberley Daily Bulletin, December 29, 2015

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