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Mayor Ron McRae and Elva Keiver, whose letter got the Marysville Arena Hockeyville bid rolling, sign the agreement with Kraft Hockweyville for $25,000 in arena upgrades. Keiver and the Marysville Hockeyville group will have the final decision on what the enhancements will be . One pos-sibility being considered is new rubber flooring for the dressing rooms.

Kimberley Kaleidoscope is bornNew festival will link

First Saturday and Arts on the Edge

C AROLYN GR [email protected]

The Kimberley Arts Council was the driving force behind the First Saturdays concept last year — an experiment that proved successful in bringing some life to the Platzl on the first Saturday of each month.

Now the Arts Council is going to take the First Saturdays concept one step further and combine the first Saturday in August with their own Arts on the Edge festival to create a whole new, eight day cele-bration of all the arts.

Kimberley Arts Council presi-dent Mike Redfern says that it

seemed like a natural fit to combine the two and hopefully Kaleido-scope will grow into something special.

“The City of Festivals doesn’t have so many festivals any more,” Redfern said. “First Saturdays began to bring some life to the Plat-zl last year and so we thought, let’s put something on so people will maybe stay a few days.”

What the Arts Council has in mind is a week-long series of con-certs, workshops, get-togethers and exhibits that feature arts of all kinds.

Spearheaded by the Arts Coun-cil, the Arts on the Edge Committee will run Kimberley Kaleidoscope. The festival will take on the new name but the juried art show on the second weekend will continue to be named Arts on the Edge.

Already, the Arts Council has

booked two acts for outdoor con-certs. Cod Gone Wild will play the First Saturday and the Boom Booms from Calgary will play August 9.

There will be children’s events and music in the Platzl, with con-certs located outside beside Centre 64 and the Platzl gazebo. Acts will be scheduled so people can move back and forth. There is a family picnic planned or Rotary Park, an evening of poetry and prose, with readings by author Angie Abdou, Trina Rasmussen will return with her vertical dance outside the Spirit Rock building.

And of course there will be workshops. A textiles workshop with noted artist Angelika Werth, a plein air workshop by noted Cal-gary artist Doug Swinton, a vertical dance workshop for those with the nerve and much more.

On Friday evening, the Arts on

the Edge exhibit is celebrated with the annual gala reception, prize-giving, silent auction and musical entertainment.

“We are pushing hard to get an interesting mix of activities and acts,” Redfern said. “Hopefully with eight days of events, people will hang around. We want to put money in the hands of artists, musi-cians and performers. We want to put people in the Platzl and down-town. It’s an exciting new initiative and we hope the community will embrace it.”

The committee has a good group of volunteers, Redfern said, and will be looking to hire a paid coor-dinator. More volunteers will also be required.

If you would like to get involved with Kimberley’s new Kaleidoscope fest, contact Redfern at [email protected].

CITY OF FESTIVALS

Lorne Elliott to visit

Comedian plays Centre 64 April 13

C AROLYN GR [email protected]

Lorne Elliott’s name will be familiar to any fan of CBC Radio, where he pro-duced and starred in Madly Off In All Directions for 11 seasons, but he’s been performing stand-up comedy for a lot longer than that.

“He’s been doing stand-up for 40 years,” said Kim-berley Arts Council Presi-dent Mike Redfern, who says that the Arts Council rarely hosts stand-up com-edy.

“It’s an entertainment more commonly associat-ed with pub and club per-formances. But Lorne El-liott is a concert stage co-median “par excellence” and we’re delighted that he has include us in his BC tour.”

Redfern says Elliott is getting incredible reviews for his current tour.

“Fast, foolish and lots of laughs!... a most enjoyable evening of genuine wit and humour”: John Holmes - St-John’s Evening Tele-gram.

“A genuine and talented nut-case... quick-witted and relevant”: Tom Reagan - Halifax Daily News.

In addition to comedy, Elliott is a playwright, nov-elist and musician.

There are only 128 seats in the theatre at Centre 64 and Redfern anticipates a sell-out for Elliott’s show.

Tickets are available in advance for $25, call 250-427-4919, or $27 at the door.

Elliott is visiting Kim-berley, Fernie and Inver-mere on the East Kootenay leg of his tour.

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It’s not a bird or a plane. It was the Go-Pro Bomb Squad skydivers in wing suits launching from a helicopter high above Fernie on Satur-day, March 22.

The Go-Pro Bomb Squad has travelled all over the world to places like Norway and Italy to skydive and base jump.

On Saturday the five men flew up with As-cent helicopters while the KAVU helicopter filmed near by.

The challenge Satur-day was the low ceiling of cloud as is common in ski towns, said skydiv-er Marshall Miller.

They jumped at 4,800 feet from the helicopter to the ground in their wing suits. The large crowd craned their necks to watch the two helicopters gain eleva-tion high above the Fernie Secondary School field.

Suddenly five dots appeared, shooting out from the silhouette of

one helicopter. The sky-divers eventually pulled their parachutes at 2,000 feet above the ground with orange smoke trail-ing behind them.

They sailed down into the snow-covered field, landing one by one in front of the cheer-ing crowd.

The weather cleared enough for them to jump on Saturday but it was definitely much colder than what they are accustomed to.

“We usually jump in board shorts and t-shirts,” said Miller. “It was freezing.”

The five men live in

Salt Lake City. It was their first time travelling to Fernie and all en-joyed the last two days skiing in the fresh deep powder, with Miller say-ing they could have been two of the best ski days of his life.

The athletes signed autographs and met

many curious kids and parents. The KAVU event continued into the evening with an af-ter-party at The North-ern.

All this was part of a big launch; Lance Ed-wards of Elevation In-dustries and Elevation Showcase has taken on the Canadian distribu-tor ship for KAVU, an outdoor gear and appar-el line based out of Seat-tle. KAVU derives its name from the aviation acronym CAVU or “clear above visibility unlimit-ed”, popular with the pa-ra-gliders as it rep-resents a fun day.

KAVU sponsors ex-treme athletes and events, including the Go-Pro Bomb Squad team.

Video footage of their jumps around the world are famous on the web with fans from around the globe watching and waiting for their next ad-venture. For more infor-mation, go to www.go-p r o b o m b s q u a d .com or www.elevation-industries.com. More photos will be posted on their Facebook page www.facebook.c o m / G o P r -oBombSquad early this week and video in a couple of weeks.

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Skydivers embrace after landing in Fernie from a wingsuit jump on Saturday.

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When The Paw Shop’s window

was smashed on Saturday night,

cat Banjo disap-peared, but com-munity response led to her rescue just hours later

Sally MacDonalDTownsman Staff

The Paw Shop’s resi-dent cat Banjo is recov-ering after a big night out in downtown Cran-brook on Saturday night.

The pet store’s owner,

banjo is back at the Paw shop.

Beloved store pet back home after dramatic experience

Stephanie McGregor, said she got a phone call at about 10:30 a.m. On

Sunday, March 23 from a customer who had driven past the 10th Av-

enue store and noticed the storefront window had been smashed.

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At The Paw Shop, cat Banjo (left) pointedly ignores friend Lisa Tuson.

From Page 3“I came down and

there was a big hole in the window and Banjo was gone,” Stephanie said.

“It was awful. I didn’t know if she got cut, or if people took her, or if she got totally spooked and bolted.”

The first thing Steph-anie did was post a photo of Banjo to the store’s Facebook page, telling customers that Banjo was missing. She’d learned the power of social media about 18 months ago when a fos-ter kitten was taken from the store. Through Facebook, the person who took the kitten was found and the kitten was returned.

“As soon as she wasn’t here, I knew I should put it on Face-book right away.”

Then Stephanie began walking around downtown Cranbrook, looking and calling for Banjo.

It didn’t take long for the community to re-spond.

“We had about eight of us – other business owners, Carla from the Playpen, Erin from Lotus Books, customers and friends.

“It made me feel real-ly great. I was really frus-trated that someone would smash my win-dow, but everyone com-ing down to help out – instantly, they were here

Banjo’s big adventure

in no time to help me look for her. That was amazing and it made up for the bad feelings to-wards whoever smashed the window.”

It only took about an hour and a half for the crew to find Banjo.

“A gentleman who lives above the York saw a cat and then he re-membered that the Paw Shop had its window smashed and the Paw Shop had a cat. So he was nice enough to come up and tell us,” said Stephanie.

He took Stephanie to where he had last seen Banjo – behind Dewey’s

– and there she was, sunning herself on the back porch.

“She wasn’t stressed at all. She wouldn’t even come to me; she would come close, to tease me, but she was really enjoy-ing the sun.

“I was so relieved that she was there, living it up, having a night out on the town. It was a Saturday night out for her.”

Now Banjo is back home, a little tired but no worse for wear. Her biggest complaint is that the window is boarded up so her cat tree has been moved from its

regular spot in the sun.As for the store,

Stephanie said nothing was taken when the window was smashed, and only a few items in the storefront were de-stroyed.

Meanwhile, the orig-inal Facebook post was shared 152 times by loyal Paw Shop custom-ers who were concerned for Banjo’s safety.

“It’s so nice – it really is heartwarming,” said Stephanie. “I was just praying that it would be a happy ending.”

Playground Committee seeks

Kimberley’s votes in online

competition

CELESTE NEEDHAMFor the Bulletin

Recently, a friend evolved the old African proverb that states “it takes a village to raise a child” by adding that it also “takes a play-ground to inspire that child to explore being fully in the world.” This idea sparked thoughts about Kimberley’s most recent nomination as a finalist in the Majesta Tree’s of Knowledge Competition and the Chapman Camp Play-ground on KIS grounds. As something new aris-es in the community it asks us to stop and re-flect upon how Kim-berley children have played in years past and the choices being made today that impact local children in the years to come.

If we reflect back, fifty years ago many of the local playgrounds existed and served not only the students that went to those schools, but the community at large. While most, and possibly all, of these playgrounds have been replaced, long standing resident

Bill Roberts tells us that the current metal structures at the Chap-man Camp Playground are original and have

been there since 1956 and the wood structure since 1975. That means that two and a half gen-erations of local fami-lies have played on that site alone. This play-ground has served thousands of Kimber-ley children from all local schools, as well as the kids who would flock there before and after time at the Chap-man Camp pool. Those involved with Cadets at the Hall, soccer tourna-ments at the town field, and recently students of the Kimberley Dance Academy and users of the rails to trails bene-fitted as well. Indeed, this park sits on school grounds and like the playgrounds at all the local schools, it serves the community at large, making this opportuni-ty of value to all Kim-berley children.

This community knows the outdoors and its youth, they’ve been doing it for over a century. Generations have lived here and watched this town’s youth grow into role model citizens, moun-taineers, NHL Hockey Players, Olympic gold medalists, successful entrepreneurs and more.

What it takes for a village to raise a child, is for the collective of separate individuals and families to come together as one, some-thing this town knows how to do as we have done it before. As a post industry town that has been through it’s own

great accomplishments and adversities it is through the continued desire to revitalize, re-generate and breathe new life into this time-less place that we evolve and grow. This Majesta Competition asks for us to come to-gether as a community once again to add yet another breath of ener-gy with the simple act of a daily vote for 30 days.

It takes so much more than two loving caregivers to teach our children about cohe-sion, the importance of coming together, re-specting one another and what it means to care. “It takes a village” pays tribute to the par-ents, teachers, coaches, scout leaders, elders, and role-models that have influenced lives instilled with self-re-spect and the desire to add value.

As an integral part of how children develop their independence and integrate into the communities that nur-ture them, it is impera-tive that they feel in-cluded and have many spaces to express them-selves. Giving them a place where they can initiate this process, in a natural way, is vital to the unfolding of future generations to come. Your vote for the Chap-man Camp Playground in the coming weeks matters!

Voting begins April 7th. Stay tuned for de-tails.

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As part of their Explorations program, all grade seven McKim students participate in a handful of Outdoor Ed sessions with Mr Loftsgard. The above photo shows the students with some of the ava-lanche safety gear the school purchased with help of funds raised at the RCMP Golf Tournament.

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SubmittedThere is nothing quite like enjoying the

serenity of your backyard, something many City of Cranbrook residents are look-ing forward to after this winter. Many of us may be looking forward to some lawn and garden maintenance or building a new deck or fence.

Along with these and many other out-door activities, there often comes an in-crease in the noise level in your neigh-bourhood. Residents are reminded that there is a City bylaw in place that is de-signed to afford all residents quiet enjoy-ment of their own property, while being considerate of others in the neighbour-hood.

“Noise is interpreted as any unreason-able disturbance not normally expected at

any given time of the day or night,” said City Bylaw Services Officer Naomi Hu-menny. “If you are running your lawn-mower at 10 a.m. that is considered rea-sonable; running your mower at 10 p.m., not so much.”

A common complaint fielded by the City Bylaw Enforcement department is barking or howling dogs left unattended in yards all day with the owners often away at work. Under the bylaw—“no person shall own, keep or harbor any animal or bird which by its cries unduly disturbs the peace, quiet, rest or tranquility of the sur-rounding neighbourhood or the public at large”.

Other common complaints include home and building construction and in some cases noisy parties. In the case of

noisy parties, concerned residents should contact the RCMP detachment, as parties tend to occur after hours.

In regard to construction, no person in the City shall undertake any type of con-struction work before 7 a.m. or after 10 p.m. No construction for profit or gain can be undertaken on a Sunday, without ex-plicit written approval by the City Engi-neer.

“Residents can carry on their normal outdoor routines during the summer months, with yard work and construction projects,” said Humenny. “We simply ask that you consider your neighbours by keeping the noise to an acceptable level at the acceptable times.”

To view City of Cranbrook Bylaw #2612, please visit www.cranbrook.ca.

City urges residents to respect noise bylaw

Letters to the editorMLa on dCCsI appreciate very much the

letter from CAO Wayne Staudt of the City of Cranbrook and I must say I regret that City staff have been thrust into the spot-light here because in my expe-rience, government staff can-not defend themselves.

I know Mr. Staudt to be a man of honour and I also know that City staff, including the Chief Engineer, are capable and professional. There is no chance that Cranbrook City staff will lose its strong rela-tionship with the provincial government.

What the public is still wait-ing for, however, is an explana-tion from the mayor and those three councillors who spoke at the public meeting.

Why did they tell the Towns-man they were “scrapping” the DCC’s? Why did they say the B.C. government “refused to approve the new bylaw”. Why did they say the Province is to blame for an “18 month delay”? Did they not know that a de-parted staff member had dropped the ball? Were they really in the dark about this? Or did they discuss the matter in camera before the public meet-ing and decide they could get away with blaming the Prov-ince and pretending the Prov-ince “refused” to sign off on this bylaw?

Bill Bennett

MLA, Kootenay East

Mine trainingIn a recent letter to the edi-

tor (March 18), Brent Bush raised questions about the Col-lege of the Rockies Haul Truck program’s student employ-ment outcomes.

While the College would also like stronger employment outcomes, the program is new and initial results are encour-aging. The College has contact-ed about 60 per cent of our graduates to date and as near as we can tell, 80 per cent of grads have secured at least a first interview. Many have been through to a third interview at various mines in B.C. About half of those reached have been hired as haul truck opera-tors.

Our program has only been running for seven months. We understand the hiring process for most B.C. mines can take an average of three months, while some operations in the oil sands can take up to eight months to make a hiring deci-sion. One thing we are learn-ing is that there are many other factors in getting hired beyond completing a program, includ-ing attitude, professionalism, interview skills, as well as drug and alcohol testing to name a few. Completing programs at the College opens doors for students but the College can-not guarantee jobs.

Having said that, there are a few things within the College’s ability to control—we can en-sure we have the right admis-sion requirements to better predict student success; we can add additional employ-ability skills to the program profile so graduates are pre-pared to present more profes-

sionally in their interviews; and we can and will continue to connect with industry to sup-port continuous quality im-provement.

Other factors are out of our control. For example, changes in commodity prices can im-pact student employment out-comes in these occupations. As well, various parts of the prov-ince are currently experiencing temporary fluctuations in la-bour market demand as min-ing projects develop. It’s our understanding that some mines have implemented a temporary hiring freeze. The College has no control over the hiring practices of industry, nor should it.

College of the Rockies is committed to providing quality instruction and relevant train-ing. We recognize that our stu-dents should have clear and appropriate expectations with respect to program outcomes, and will ensure that this is clearly communicated to pro-spective students. Finally, we will ensure that we are training numbers of students that cor-respond to industry demand. Be assured that we will focus on these commitments as we grow our program.

Dr. Marilyn Petersen

Acting Vice President, Education

College of the Rockies

Mine trainingI am writing to provide

some additional context re-garding the March 18th letter to the editor from Mr. Brent

Bush in response to the recent article “B.C. mining all the rage”.

Teck is proud to support training programs such as the College of the Rockies’ (COTR) Haul Truck Operator program that provide important practi-cal skills for individuals inter-ested in a career in the mining industry. These programs cer-tainly increase the available opportunities for people seek-ing work with a range of em-ployers, including Teck. To-date we have hired close to one-third of the graduates of the 2013 haul truck program that applied and are still con-sidering a number of 2014 ap-plicants.

However, it’s important to point out that completion of a training program is just one factor in hiring. We also con-sider prior experience, other skills, and overall fit with our safety culture. Haul truck driv-ers are in demand in our in-dustry—in 2013 we hired an average of 30 haul truck opera-tors per month from an aver-age 600 applications received. In each case we aim to hire the best overall candidate so that we can continue to build one of the best teams in the busi-ness.

Applicable training is al-ways a positive step for anyone looking to apply for a role with Teck. We look forward to con-tinuing to work with the COTR to support advanced education for the mining industry.

Glen CampbellDirector, Human Resources

Teck Coal

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The B.C. NDP leadership contest is officially underway, with the entry of Vancouver Island veter-an John Horgan in a reluctant reprise of his 2011 run against

Port Coquitlam MLA Mike Farnworth.Unfortunately for them, weekend cam-

paign events were overshadowed by reve-lations of flagrant abuse of taxpayers’ money by the executive and board of the Portland Hotel Society. A pair of audits fi-nally released last week on this network of Downtown Eastside social agencies re-vealed systematic looting of the $28 million a year in tax-payers’ money that has kept this supposed charity run-ning.

Alas for the NDP, local MLA Jenny Kwan not only failed to keep an eye on it, her recently separated husband was one of the execu-tives who took part for years, and she ben-efited to the tune of $35,000 in luxury trav-el. That’s what we know about, since much of the evidence wasn’t produced for the auditors.

When this Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous scheme finally came to light, Kwan hastily paid back the $35,000 and an-nounced she’s taking an unpaid leave of absence. Her tearful claim that she be-lieved nothing was wrong is simply not credible. She not only must have known of

her husband Dan Small’s jet-set ways, she participated in at least two trips, one to Vienna and Bristol, England to do “re-search” and attend a poverty conference from high-end hotels.

If it wants to retain any shred of credi-bility as it spouts misleading poverty statis-tics and simplistic solutions, the party must get rid of Kwan, who has two years left to max out her MLA pension.

MLA pensions were a factor in the 2010 ouster of Carol James, who infuriated the old guard by trying to defuse a public backlash against a generous pay and benefits package worked out in private be-tween the NDP and the B.C. Liberals. Kwan would later take a leading role in the caucus revolt that forced

James out as leader.Long-time political watchers will see

the PHS abuse as a bigger, uglier version of the Nanaimo Commonwealth Holdings Society scandal. There the siphoning off of bingo funds from charities cost Mike Har-court his job as premier. In that case, NDP MLAs sat on the board, took their monthly cut and kept quiet.

There’s more. Horgan became enraged last year at the reporter who took a tip from the B.C. Liberals to reveal the NDP was skimming constituency office budgets to pay for its own “ethnic outreach” operation

in Vancouver. Horgan had rubber-stamped the plan with a since-dismissed legislature accountant, and thought he had kept it secret after the Auditor-General blew the whistle. His willingness to assess its ethics remains in question to this day.

Then there is Craig Keating, who took over as party president from Moe Sihota last year. Did he inherit the $72,000 salary negotiated by Sihota with the B.C. Federa-tion of Labour and two of its largest unions? If so, do Horgan and Farnworth think this is appropriate?

Will the party’s joined-at-the-hip rela-tionship with government unions even be discussed in the carefully staged leader-ship contest that’s about to begin?

Then there’s the policy shipwreck left behind by Adrian Dix. His plan to use envi-ronmental assessment as a weapon to tor-pedo industrial projects remains popular with the party’s urban base.

Farnworth and Horgan have paid lip service to the notion that projects like the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion should be properly assessed. Meanwhile the federal NDP fights to keep stacking public hearings with pre-selected protest-ers.

The party may wish to consider what would give its next B.C. leader any hope of governing.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press newspapers.

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It seems the WHL made the right choice to broadcast the Kootenay Ice and the Calgary Hit-men in the first round of the post-season.

The two teams put on a show Monday night, scoring six times each in regulation be-fore Greg Chase ended it in overtime for a 7-6 final that put Calgary up 2-1 in the series.

The Hitmen blew four separate leads be-fore Kootenay coun-tered, and it was Calgary who played catch up in the third period to force the extra frame.

The Ice got a pair of goals from Jagger Dirk, while Luke Philp, Sam Reinhart, Zach Franko and Jaedon Deschene-au also provided of-fence.

For the Hitmen, Landon Welykholowa scored twice for the sec-ond time in as many games, while Radel Fa-zleev also tallied a pair. Adam Tambellini, Tra-vis Sandheim and Chase rounded out the goals for Calgary.

The Ice powerplay was ridiculous, scoring five times in six chances with the man-advan-tage—an aspect of Koo-tenay’s game that has certainly gotten into the heads of the Hitmen players.

“It’s pretty hard, I think we just have to make a couple of adjust-ments, but yeah, if we just stay disciplined, I know they’ll have a bet-ter chance not scoring, because their power-play is pretty deadly,”

said Hitmen forward Jake Virtanen. “If we just stay out of the box, that’s going to be really im-portant for the coming games here.”

With eight powerplay goals in three games, the Ice have certainly shown they can take full advantage of their op-portunities with the man-advantage.

“I think we’ve had the best powerplay on the road and one of the best all-around,” said Descheneau, who had a six-point night with five assists and a goal. “It’s our intimidation to other teams and we want to keep drawing penalties, because it’s a huge thing for us.”

Despite the effective-ness on the powerplay, the team needed to be better at even-strength, Descheneau added.

“There’s a lot of posi-tives in the game,” he added. “We scored five powerplay goals, we killed off a five-on-three, so our special teams were good, we just gotta

tighten up on our five-on-five and we should be fine.

“There should be no problems moving for-ward—we did a lot of good things today going into tomorrow’s game.”

Kootenay goaltender Mackenzie Skapski had a tough night, giving up seven goals in 28 shots. Kootenay had a slight edge on the shot clock, putting 31 pucks on Cal-gary netminder Chris Driedger, who made 25 saves.

For the third straight game, the Hitmen scored first on an early goal, with Welykholowa banging in a feed from Tambellini at the side of the net.

Luke Philp replied on Kootenay’s first power-play, beating Driedger with a low shot from just inside the blue line.

Kootenay also made a big penalty kill with 32 seconds of a two-man advantage for Calgary and handling the re-mainder of the five-on-four after Rinat Valiev and Dirk were sent to the box 1:28 apart.

In the second period, Welykholowa pulled the Hitmen ahead, but Franko answered back for the Ice with another powerplay goal.

Adam Tambellini tal-lied roughly a minute later, using a Kootenay defenceman as a screen.

However, the goals came quick in the sec-ond half of the period.

Kootenay’s power-play went to work again and after a big pileup outside of the crease, Reinhart roofed the puck to even the score

up at 4-4 at 13:29.Not even 60 seconds

later, Fazleev got his first of the game off a lucky deflection from a pass in Kootenay territory. That got Skapski pulled for the remainder of the pe-riod.

A minute after that, Dirk scored the only even-strength goal for the Ice to knot it back up again.

Descheneau gave Kootenay their first lead with 13 seconds left in the second frame, scor-ing the fourth power-play goal to do so.

Just five minutes into the third period, Sand-heim flicked the puck on net after entering the zone, which went off the post and in for a 5-5 score. Dirk got his sec-

ond of the game five minutes later for Koote-nay’s fifth powerplay goal, scoring top shelf stick side on Driedger to retake the lead.

After Dirk put Koote-nay ahead, Fazleev only needed 37 seconds to put it back to a tie for Calgary, which would stand for the rest of reg-ulation.

The momentum shifted both ways in overtime; Kootenay had some good early pres-sure, with a notable chance from Matt Alfa-ro, but Chase scored the game-winner for the Hitmen with a slap shot from a drop pass off the rush 5:05 into the peri-od.

The two teams will go head-to-head again

on Tuesday night for Game Four at Western Financial Place.

NOTES: Kootenay Ice defenceman Landon Cross returned from in-jury to what had been a short-staffed defensive corps, which is also missing Tyler King. Hit-man F Brady Brassart was hit into a turnbuck-le and left briefly for the dressing room, but soon

returned to the bench. After Skapski was pulled in the second period, Hoflin played roughly six minutes and made two saves. Skapski re-turned for the third frame. Kootenay for-ward Tim Bozon, who is recovering from menin-gitis at a hospital in Sas-katoon, had his 20th birthday on Monday.

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They may be buddies in the off-season, but when the Ice and the Hitmen are facing each other, Calgary forward Greg Chase puts his friendship with Kootenay sniper Jaedon Deschenau on hold.

Ditto with Jake Virtanen, who is best friends with Mack-enzie Skapski’s little brother back in their hometown of Ab-botsford.

Chase put the final nail in

the coffin on Monday night, scoring the OT winner to lift the Hitmen to a 7-6 win over the Ice.

“It’s definitely cool,” said Chase, who hails from Sher-wood Park—a stone’s throw away from Descheneau’s hometown of Edmonton. “I mean, being from the same city and growing up together on the ice and at school, it definitely adds to more of a special series and he had a re-ally good night himself—I

think he had six points—so it was really nice to get that one for myself, for bragging rights.”

Chase is property of the Ed-monton Oilers, who selected him 188th overall in the sev-enth round of the 2013 NHL Draft.

Virtanen grew up with Mitch Skapski, the younger brother to the Kootenay Ice goaltender who currently plays for the Victoria Royals.

Virtanen is projected to be a first-round pick in the 2014

NHL Draft, and tallied 71 points in the regular season, including 45 goals with the Hitmen this year.

“It’s good going up against him,” Virtanen said, of facing Skapski. “It’s good for brag-ging rights after the season for whoever wins.

“He’s a great goalie, there’s nothing bad I can say about him. I think Kootenay’s a good team, but if we keep doing what we’re doing, I think we have a good shot.”

WHL opponents put friendships on hold

TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2014

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by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar

HOROSCOPESby Jacqueline Bigar


Tundra By Chad Carpenter

Garfield By Jim Davis

Hagar the Horrible By Dick Browne

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) You might think that a partner is overserious and not aware of how you feel. Be careful when handling your hurt and anger. You could feel quite off-kilter. Try to sit on your discontent for a while, and then initiate a discus-sion in the near future. Tonight: Where the gang is. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You’ll want to break precedent and head in a new direction, but a partner or family mem-ber might balk at the idea. This person is more comfortable with the status quo. You could be in a situation where someone might try to test your limits. Tonight: Take the lead. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Deal with a situation directly, and keep in mind that a partner can be demanding. This person might prefer to keep the situa-tion as-is. On the other hand, a loved one is likely to disagree. Tempers could flare, so be care-ful. Tonight: Try a new type of cuisine.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Others tend to come to you with specific demands. You might wonder what is possible under the circumstances. Realize your limits, yet be ready for a fast change. You could find that your enthusiasm turns to anger if your expectations are not met. Tonight: Dinner for two. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Get into a project immediately if you have any desire to complete it before the day is over. Mid-af-ternoon will be the time to net-work and create more of what you desire. Defer to others as much as you can when dealing with difficult people. Tonight: You flourish around the crowds. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Speak your mind and allow greater give-and-take between you and someone else. You might feel restrained at first, but do whatever it takes to let go and start this process. You could come up with a very dynamic idea that works for both of you. Tonight: Run an errand or two. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You have the foundation for a

better situation, yet you seem to be holding back. Check out an emotional investment with care -- you will love the results, if you proceed. If you are not able to move forward, you could lose your temper. Tonight: Choose to do something fun. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Seek out a friend or loved one. You might want to reverse di-rection when you feel pinned down or as if you have no other choice. Listen and think in terms of gains rather than kicking the door down in frustration. Check out an investment with care. Tonight: Head on home. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You might feel burdened by someone’s demands, and could be wondering what to do next. If you continue on the path that is not natural for you, you proba-bly won’t be able stay even-tem-pered. Tempers are likely to flare. Tonight: Out and about. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Be forthright in how you deal with a situation. You could be in a conflict with someone with whom you regularly interact. Be

careful, as what might appear to be a cushy setup could quickly degenerate. Take no one and nothing for granted. Tonight: Play it nice and easy. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Not until later today will you feel at your best. You might wonder what to do if you’re faced with a precarious situation. You’ll know that you want to integrate some innovative change, yet you also might want to play it cool. To-night: Choose to do something new. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You are past the point of no re-turn. You’ll feel in your mind that you must follow your chosen path. Understand exactly what you are dealing with at the pres-ent moment. A partner could be contentious when you least expect it. Tonight: Out with your best friend. BORN TODAY Actress Sarah Jessica Parker (1965), singer/songwriter El-ton John (1947), singer Aretha Franklin (1942) ***

Dear Annie: I have played in a local pok-er league for 10 years and have built solid friendships with these people. Three years ago, a new crew joined our crowd. At first, they were friendly, but in the past two years, one of them began having home poker par-ties. I was completely caught off guard when I started noticing Facebook posts with all of our friends, and my husband and I were not on the invite list. I tried to be a good sport and would post comments to let them know I was glad they had a good time, but deep down, I was hurt that people I’d known for a decade didn’t seem to mind that we were not there. A few of them commented privately, saying they were not aware it was happening, but noth-ing changed. Last year, I was diagnosed with cancer and have undergone radiation. My “don’t care” quotient is at an all-time high, so when I no-ticed once again that we were not invited to a gathering, I commented that it was a slap in the face and amazingly rude to expect me to be courteous and friendly during our poker games when it’s obvious that she has no re-gard for my feelings at all. I later attempted to extend an olive branch to all of the members of our league (includ-ing Miss Rude) by inviting them to my hus-band’s birthday party, but not one of them showed up. Do I need a shrink, or should I just put all of our cards on the table and find out what I’ve done to make her deliberately alienate me? -- Royal Flush Dear Royal: This sounds like high school with the mean girls and the bullies. There could be any number of reasons why Miss Rude has isolated you -- she doesn’t like you, she wants to be in control, she believes you are competition. The real question is why your other friends go along with it. If you have a pal in your group, ask for an honest assessment. But mostly, we think you need new friends. Dear Annie My husband and I are childless, over 55 and in the process of downsizing to a smaller home. Our birthdays are coming up. We don’t want or need clothes, knickknacks or home furnishings. We donate such items to charity. While we appreciate their generosity, we have told our friends and relatives that a gift certificate (in any amount) to a restaurant is most welcome. It is a nice treat and an in-centive to get out. But few of them choose this option. Last Christmas, we were inun-dated with clothes and tchotchkes for the home we are leaving. Would you please address this so our re-quests aren’t ignored? -- Ft. Myers, Fla. Dear Florida: All gifts are just that, and no one is obligated to get you anything, let alone what you are requesting. The proper response is to say thank you and then give the items away. But we understand your frustration. If the same people keep doing this, it’s OK to ask them to stop, as you no longer need these items and will give them to charity. You can sincerely suggest that they make a direct donation to the charity instead. If they then ask what you’d actually like, you can tell them. Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Unwill-ing Son,” who refused to take a family photo for his parents’ 40th anniversary because his mother asked him to wear a white sweatshirt and he doesn’t look good in white. Several years back, we had such a picture taken. I treasure the picture because the family is scattered all over the world. Tell the ungrateful snob to put on the sweatshirt and make his parents happy. It may be the last time they are together. -- Grandparent in White Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndi-cate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syn-dicate Web page at www.creators.com.COPYRIGHT 2014 CREATORS.COM

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The trial stemming from a fatal crash in Kootenay Na-tional Park in 2011 got un-derway in Invermere provin-cial court earlier this week, with a Vancouver man facing four counts of dangerous driving causing death.

Jaswinder Singh Bagri, the driver of a semi involved in the collision, has pleaded not guilty to all charges and was in court, more than two and a half years after the crash occurred, for the first four days of the multi-day trial this past week.

Bagri was driving his un-loaded flatdeck B-train com-mercial tractor trailer south-bound on Highway 93 through Kootenay National Park on July 22, 2011, when, according to the testimony of several witnesses on the tri-al’s first day, near Olive Lake Bagri lost control of his vehi-cle, which skidded, then jackknifed and crossed the centre line.

Although none of the wit-nesses could see it, a north-bound Dodge campervan towing a Suzuki SUV was now in the path of the jack-

knifed semi.In the camper was a fami-

ly of four — Robert Howard, 48, his wife Ana-Maria Dias, 50, and their two children Veronica, 9, and Samantha, 11 — from Palo Alto, Califor-nia on vacation in B.C. The tractor trailer smashed into the camper and SUV, pin-ning the two smaller vehicles against the highway barrier, which ignited all three vehi-cles and trapped the family inside the blazing camper. All four died in the fire.

On the morning of the third day of the trial, RCMP collision analyst Corporal Jeff Burnett testified about investigating the crash scene after the collision.

Cpl. Burnett testified that tire marks from the scene indicate that of the three lanes on the highway at the crash site (two in the direc-tion the camper van was driving and one in the direc-tion the semi was driving) the camper van was in the slow lane or possibly even on the shoulder at the time of collision and that the semi was across the centre line.

Using toy trucks to visual-ly reconstruct the incident,

Cpl. Burnett testified that based on his analysis, the truck of the semi initially hit the camper van on angle, catching the left front corner of the camper van and push-ing it back from the exact spot of first impact. The semi continued jackknifing, with its two trailers then contrib-uting to pushing the truck and the camper van out as well, which according to Cpl. Burnett, is why the barrier was pushed out back from the point of initial contact.

Court heard testimony from truck driving school owner and instructor Rocky Korchinski on the trial’s sec-ond day. Korchinski de-scribed the process of check-ing brakes at designated brake check stops and was then asked by Crown prose-cutor Lynal Doerksen how long a check should take.

“It should take 10 min-utes,” said Korchinski. “We make them do it fully and completely at the top of every mountain pass, not just once as they go through a mountainous area.”

Korchinski also testified that drivers should not really use their jake brakes at all if

conditions are snowy, slick or wet, and should use jake brakes minimally if their trucks are unloaded. He also testified that a yellow speed advisory sign reading 60 ki-lometres an hour — the last such sign before the curve in which the collision occurred — gives the recommended speed for cars during good conditions.

“It’s the fastest you should go,” said Korchinski.

One of the witnesses on the trial’s first day, Guy Dai-gle, testified he was driving behind Bagri on the day of

the crash and said he noticed Bagri pull into and out of a brake check stop before be-ginning the descent down from the pass near Olive Lake — the same descent on which the crash occurred.

Bagri pulled into the brake check stop, some lights on the semi flashed and then the semi came back out on the road quickly, according to Daigle.

“I don’t think he stopped. I can’t imagine he did. We saw some lights flashing as if he had hit the brakes, but I don’t think he stopped com-

pletely,” said Daigle. “I was chatting with my wife and we said, ‘That’s strange, I don’t know what a truck stop is supposed to be, but that seemed quite quick.’”

Daigle and other witness-es travelling in his car and in another vehicle parked at the side of the road at the time of the crash testified that the weather the day of the colli-sion was wet and rainy, and from their best estimates that Bagri had likely been driving about 60 kilometres an hour to 70 kilometres an hour just before the collision.

Collision analyst takes stand at Bagri trial

Columbia Valley Pioneer file Photo

Firefighters deal with the aftermath of the July 2011 crash, for which Jaswinder Singh Bagri is now on trial.

Kimberley Daily Bulletin, March 25, 2014

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