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BARRY COULTERNelson is one tough cat. He

is recovering at the East Koo-tenay SPCA after having sur-vived a hideous act of animal cruelty.

Today, Wednesday, April 23, is Animal Abuse Preven-tion Day, and Nelson’s pres-ence is a stark reminder that acts of animal abuse are wide-

spread and commonplace ev-erywhere, including here in the East Kootenay.

“We’ve seen some crazy things,” said Brenna Baker, Manager of the East Kootenay SPCA. “We want people to be aware that things like this are happening here.”

Baker said the BCSPCA started Animal Abuse Preven-

tion Day in 2012 to get people talking about the subject, in the aftermath of the Whistler sled dog incident, in which an employee of a sled dog com-pany was ordered to shoot more than 50 healthy dogs after a downturn in the busi-ness.

As for Nelson, what some human subjected him to al-

most defies belief.“Someone stopped by on

Thursday,” Baker said. “They said they had seen a cat by the side of the road. One of the staff went out there three times, and finally caught him, in a net. We rushed him to the vet.”

Cat survives sick acts of tortureAnimal cruelty is widespread and common, even in the East Kootenay, SPCA says

SALLY MACDONALDTownsman Staff

Cranbrook’s Tama-rack Centre is back in business after a power outage forced the mall to close for a day last

week.The mall was closed

all day Wednesday as the whole shopping centre experienced an unexpected power out-age — with the excep-

tion of Tim Hortons and Boston Pizza which are on a different power phase.

The power went out at about 10 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15 and

was restored at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 16, said Linda Birch, man-ager of the Tamarack Centre.

“BC Hydro spent the night troubleshooting

and then in the morning brought their locator in to help assist in what they knew was then a broken main cable from the transformer near the 12th Street bridge. They

BARRY COULTER PHOTO

Nelson the cat is recovering at the East Kootenay SPCA, but traumatized after being subjected to horrific acts of violence.

See SPCA, Page 3

Power outage closes Tamarack CentreStores in the Tamarack Centre were forced to close for business on Wednesday, April 16

dug up the junction box and pulled and replaced the cable and terminat-ed at both ends and put us live again.”

As the mall was built in 1976, it is likely that the cable was the origi-nal dating from that time, so its age was like-ly the cause for the break, Birch added.

Mall management

told people about the closure using an-nouncements on the radio, its website and its Facebook page to keep shoppers informed.

“Please thank people for their patience and we certainly had a busy day (Thursday) so thank those shoppers for wait-ing until we were open again,” said Birch.

SALLY MACDONALDTownsman Staff

Both sides of the ne-gotiating table hope that a teachers’ contract can be reached before job action amps up to phase two.

The BCTF an-nounced last week that the first stage of job ac-tion for teachers will begin today, Wednes-day, April 23, with teachers refusing com-munication with school managers, arriving no more than an hour be-fore and leaving an hour after school hours, and refusing supervision of students outside class time.

The B.C. govern-ment and the B.C. Teachers Federation are trying to agree upon a long-term contract for teachers. BCTF mem-bers voted in March to follow a three-stage strike plan.

If phase one fails to result in an agreement between the two par-

ties, the BCTF will step up the job action to one-day walkouts around the province in phase two. Phase three would be a full-scale strike, but it would re-quire another vote by teachers to authorize.

Shelley Balfour, pres-ident of the Cranbrook and Fernie Teachers As-sociation, said that phase one job action will have little impact on students.

“The teachers will be teaching the kids and doing their regular ac-tivities. There will be no curtailing of the extra-curricular – that’s still going ahead,” she said. “Where the kids might notice the change will be that board office staff – the excluded staff – will be on recess super-vision. That’s probably the most that the kids will notice – there will be different people su-pervising.”

< Fuhlon Fists finishes firstLocal filmmaker tops at underground festival | Page 3

On to Phase 1TEACHERS START JOB ACTION

Little impact on students as first phase of job action begins today;

Education Minister speaks against work-to-rule action during a visit

to Cranbrook on Tuesday

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To celebrate Earth Day yesterday, April 22, stu-dents here in the Kootenays, and right here in Cran-brook, participated in Wildsight’s Beyond Recycling program. At Kootenay Orchards School, Mrs. Pot-ter’s Grade 5 class undertook a Trash to Treasure art project. The students found items that would usual-ly have gone to the landfill and instead reused them for a variety of different artful creations, from a cat house made out of boxes, a slingshot made of an antler and buggy rope, and a wind chime made out of spoons.

Students had their projects out on display in the school library all day Tuesday, as they learned about various facets of the earth and the connections that tie everything together.

Earth Day is celebrated around the world. Monica Nissen, Wildsight’s education program

manager, said that kids participating in Wildsight’s program have planned a variety of hands-on activi-ties to celebrate. Those include recycled art projects, planting salad greens, planting pollinator-friendly flowers, making paper from recycled newspaper, going on energy efficiency building tours and trash to treasure art. Nissen said the projects are to en-courage students to consider consumption in a new light.

“The best part of the program is watching the kids become empowered, recognizing that their in-dividual actions can have a positive impact and make a difference”, Nissen said.

She explained that Beyond Recycling is a 22-week, classroom-based program for Grades 4-7 de-livered in 11 schools across the Columbia Basin. It takes students on a journey to understand the im-pacts of lifestyle choices and highlights the impor-tance of individual actions in creating sustainability. Highlights include a tour of the local landfill and recycling centre and the multi-week ‘Eco-Chal-lenge’, in which students challenge themselves to reduce their energy consumption, generate less waste and reduce their ecological footprint.

Nissen said Beyond Recycling is in its seventh year and it has been delivered in 40 classrooms across the Columbia Basin to 962 students. This year, it is currently being delivered in 11 classrooms in Cranbrook, Kimberley, Kaslo, Nelson, Castlegar, Fernie, Winlaw, South Slocan and Creston.

Wildsight wishes to recognize the Columbia Basin Trust, Government of Canada, BC Hydro, For-tis BC, Regional District of Central Kootenay and Waste Management Inc. for their generous support of this program.

Students turn trash to art for Earth Day Arne Petryshen Photo

Kootenay Orchard students in Mrs. Potter’s Grade 5 class spent Earth Day learning about all different facets of the earth’s interconnected web of life. The class also created Trash to Treasure art projects as a part of Wildsight’s Beyond Recycling education program.


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A local filmmaker has taken top prize in a competition that’s part

of the Calgary Underground Film Festival.

Jose Galdamez, along with a cast and crew made up of his East Kootenay friends, was given first place in the 48-Hour Movie Mak-ing Challenge at the film fes-tival, held April 7-13 in Al-berta.

The film, titled “Fuhlon Fists”, was given first place in the judged category, and second place in the fan fa-vourite category.

“I wanted to include more comedy, but I think I was being too hard on myself, because when the movie played, it was amazing to see the reaction of the people and all this laughter,” said Galdamez.

The 48-Hour Movie Mak-ing Challenge took place from March 21 to 23. Only 24 filmmakers could register to take part.

At 7 p.m. on Friday, March 21, the film crews were given a genre (martial arts), a prop (boiled hot dogs) and a line (“Tell ‘em Large Marge sent ya”) that were to be included in a 2-5 minute short film.

Then the teams had 48 hours – until Sunday, March

23 at 7 p.m. – to write, shoot and edit the film.

“We write and prepare Friday night, we shoot Satur-day, and I start the editing process Saturday night and finish Sunday, and deliver it Sunday,” said Galdamez.

“Your adrenaline is just going because you need to finish it. Once you deliver it, you feel like you’re going to die.”

The plot he came up with is about a young boy who is with his mother when they are accosted by a dark, shady figure. Both are knocked down, but the boy is rescued by a martial arts master, who raises the boy and trains him to avenge his mother. When the child becomes a man, the master tells his pupil he is ready — adding, “Tell him Large Marge sent ya.”

Without ruining the end-ing, the boiled hot dog is used in the climactic scene at the film’s conclusion.

Filming took place in var-ious local spots, including private property and Crown land in Fort Steele, and at Fort Steele Heritage Town.

“I really have to give a big thank you to Fort Steele be-cause I showed up when they opened and explained what I was doing and that I would give them credit,” said Galdamez. “They were really

helpful.”He said that his friends

really enjoyed the experi-ence, even though the actors would also help lug camera gear.

An important goal was showcasing what the East Kootenay has to offer.

“They don’t have what we have here, which is the mountains. So I used some in my background shots to show what the Kootenays are about,” said Galdamez.

Creating the film in such a short timeframe was a chal-

lenge, but a positive one, he went on.

“It’s so intensive because all you can think about is the creative process. You have just a one-track mind.

“I have other projects that I have been working on for a long time and they are just sitting there. But when you have 48 hours, it forces you to start and finish the process within a certain timeline.”

And the abbreviated cre-ative process gives him the kick he needs, he said, add-ing that he is now hoping to

enter other film festivals.“What I really like is that it

gives me that extra drive to continue with the other proj-ects that I have going. It’s just nice to get that inspiration and then go back to your other projects.”

That doesn’t mean Gal-damez was 100 per cent sat-isfied with the result.

“I am seldom pleased with what I create. I’m a bit of a perfectionist, especially when you only have 48 hours.”

In fact, at the last minute,

with just hours to go on Sun-day, Galdamez decided to add narration to the film. He phoned a friend who has a deep, calming British accent and asked him to read the script, then and there. The film was submitted just in time.

“That’s what really saved our short film – the narra-tion. It really tied everything together.”

After submitting the film on March 23, the judging panel had until April 13 to decide on the winners. In the end, 19 films were eligible.

Galdamez travelled to Calgary for the festival, and was glad he did.

“After I saw it in the movie theatre, I was a little bit pleased with what we pro-duced. I was still not com-pletely satisfied.”

For winning first in the judged category and second in the popular category, Gal-damez received $2,500 worth of film-making rental equip-ment, and a camera slider worth about $350.

“But for me, it’s mostly the challenge. It was great to win it, but really for me, it was about creating some-thing and getting people to like it.”

You can watch “Fuhlon Fists” at http://vimeo.com/89871261.

Local filmmaker wins pressure test at Calgary festivalJose Galdamez and his local crew shot a winning short film at Fort Steele in a gruelling 48-hour challenge

Screengrab courteSy Vimeo

A young man avenges his mother’s fate with the dark figure who changed the course of his life in the climax of “Fuhlon Fists”.

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A young boy and his mother walk through Fort Steele Heritage Town as a shadowy figure lurks behind them in an opening scene from “Fuhlon Fists”.

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Nelson (named after Willie Nelson’s ‘The Highwayman’), had been shot in the head seven times with a pellet gun and had had his neck sliced at.

“The vet thinks someone had tried to cut his head off,” Baker said.

The good news is

that Nelson will survive and recover, although he will forever be trau-matized by the horrific event. He is already be-coming more active, eating at his bowl of food and hissing at strangers who approach with cameras.

The bad news is that cases like this are not

uncommon. “There are many

cases around here,” Baker said, adding that the local SPCA has one Animal Cruelty Officer who serves both the East and West Koote-nays — a large territory for one. He is sometimes assisted by an officer out of the Okanagan, but they too are very busy

up there, Baker said. If you have any infor-

mation on this case please call the East Koo-tenay SPCA at 250-421-7861.

Province-wide, the SPCA investigated more than 8,000 cases of ani-mal abuse in 2013.

Nelson’s vet bills will be high — over $1,000 — and will include den-tal work. Anyone wish-ing to donate to help the SPCA cover the bill can call 250-426-6751. The SPCA is located just east of Cranbrook on High-way 3/95.

The SPCA will also be fundraising to get new stainless steel cages for its cats. A respiratory illness recently swept through the cat popula-tion, due to the existing

old wooden cages, Baker said. Thus, no cats were available for adop-tion for two weeks.

The SPCA has a list of tips to help prevent ani-mal abuse:

• Don’t be a bystand-er — Report animal cru-elty to the BC SPCA’s toll-free hotline at 1-855-622-7722;

• Take responsibility for the animals in your life;

• Speak up for ani-mals — send a message to your local elected of-ficials to let them know how important it is to have strong animal pro-tection legislation, as well as resources for an-imal cruelty law en-forcement and preven-tion work;

• Teach kids that kindness counts;

• Learn about the vi-olence link — Animals are often not the only victims of abuse. There is a strong connection between animal cruelty and other forms of vio-lence such as bullying and domestic abuse.

For more informa-tion on the SPCA, in-cluding an online peti-tion against animal cru-elty, go to spca.bc.ca.

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SPCA rescues victim of animal cruelty

Balfour said teachers don’t want the job ac-tion to affect student learning, rather send a message to the govern-ment.

“We are trying to put a little bit more pressure on the table without im-pacting families direct-ly,” she said.

“We are trying to honour families and not involve them in this ac-tion. We want it to be at the bargaining table where we get some re-sults.”

Teachers hope that negotiations with the province will advance before job action esca-lates to phase two.

“Ideally, we would end Phase 1 with a con-tract – that doesn’t in-clude a 10-year con-tract,” Balfour said. “That would be my dream because it does impact things as we get to Stage 2 and 3 – there will be an impact on families if we get there.”

But Peter Fassbend-

er, the B.C. Minister of Education who was in Cranbrook on Tuesday, April 22 to tour Mount Baker Secondary School, said that the government is already under pressure to reach a deal with teachers.

“I was disappointed,” Minister Fassbender said outside Mount Baker. “They felt that this limited job action would put pressure on us and I’ve said, clearly we had pressure to find a negotiated settlement even before the strike vote. We want a negoti-ated settlement – that’s our goal.

“I hope we can con-tinue to look at what the real issues are. For me, it’s what goes on inside the walls of this school – it’s all about student learning outcomes that we should always be fo-cused on. I’d like to get away from labour dis-ruption and the threat of it; that’s why we want a long-term agreement.”

Fassbender said he hopes a negotiation can be reached before phase two affects the final weeks of the school year.

“We are coming to the end of the school year and my goal as Minister of Education on behalf of our Pre-mier and our govern-ment is to keep schools

functioning so students can graduate and we can finish the year,” he said.

Fassbender said both parties have put forward offers as the bargaining talks contin-ue.

“We have made some movement as government at the table. I haven’t seen as much

movement on behalf of the BCTF,” he said.

“My goal, govern-ment’s goal, the Pre-mier’s goal, is to keep schools functioning, to have no disruption, and to get to a settlement.”

For more on Minis-ter Fassbender’s visit to the East Kootenay, see the Thursday, April 24 issue of the Townsman.

Education minister speaks against ‘disappointing’ teachers job action

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Education Minister Peter Fassbender speaks to a Mount Baker student during his tour of the Cranbrook school on Tuesday, April 22.


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ONGOING Science Fair 2014: Represent the Kootenays in the Canada Wide Science Fair in Windsor, Ontario. Friday, April 11– Competitive Fair for students Grade 7-12. Saturday April 12 – Non-competitive Fair for students K-6. Where: College of the Rockies. Volunteers needed for both days: www.ekrsf.ca Facebook at: Ekscience FairSchool Days Art Exhibition, CDAC O� ce and Gallery 135 10th Ave S., Tues-Fri 11-5pm, Saturday 10-2pm, 250-426-4223, [email protected], www.cranbrookanddistrictartscouncil.com Dance/Practice: every Saturday. Practice from 7 to 8 PM, dancing until 11 PM. Dance With Me Cranbrook Studio, 206-14 A 13th Street, South, behind Safeway.Volunteers are needed to assist sta� with childminding while parents attend programs at the Kimberley Early Learning Center. Come play!! Weekly or monthly for 2 hours. Diana 250427-0716 CRANBROOK QUILTERS’ GUILD hold their meetings every 2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month at 7:15pm upstairs in the Seniors’ Hall, 125-17th Ave. S. Everyone welcome. Info: Donna at 250-426-7136.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.com Bibles For Missions Thrift Store, 824 Kootenay St. N., Cranbrook - serving our community to bene� t others - at home and abroad. We turn your donations into helping dollars! Open Tues-Sat 10am-5pm. Phone 778-520-1981.East Kootenay Women Executives & Entrepreneurs (EKWEE) meet the � rst Monday of every month at the Heritage Inn, Dining Room Annex, 7:00PM. Join us for of the menu dinner 5:30-7:00. Pay your own tab. Networking, share accomplishments, education. Bev Campbell 778-481-4883Royal Canadian Legion Branch 24; Friday Meat Draw: 4:30- 6:30, Saturday Meat Draw: 3:30-5:30. Mark Creek Lions meet 1st and 3rd Wednesday 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!Seniors Autobiographical Writing for those aged 60 or wiser at the Kimberley Library. No writing experience necessary. It’s free. Tuesdays 10:00 - Noon. Register: Kim Roberts CBAL Coordinator 250-427-4468 or [email protected] 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.Creating a bridge between Cranbrook’s Art scene and Sport scene, The Cranbrook and District Arts Council is holding an Art Exhibition for the month of March titled “Slapshot – Sport in Art”. Local artists submitted their “Sport Themed” work to the Gallery; on display to Friday Mar 28th. Canadian Cancer Society- if you have spare time and would like to volunteer, interested applicants can call 250-426-8916, drop by our o� ce at #19-9th Avenue S, Cranbrook or go to www.� ghtwithus.ca and register as a volunteer.

UPCOMINGLearn about advanced care planning, choose what healthcare you want and don’t want even when you can’t speak for yourself. Attend an info session presented by the Cranbrook Kimberley Hospice Society at the College of the Rockies, Kimberley Campus 1850 Warren Avenue, Thurs. Apr. 24th from 7 to 9 pm. It’s your voice, let it be heard. Info; call 250-417-2019 toll free 855-417-2019 or go to w ww.ckhospice.comHave Camera Will Travel.... Join Jim Webster & Ian McKinlay - travelogue “Wet & Dry” - Hiking Across Scotland at Centre 64 on Tuesday, April 22 at 7:30 pm. Admission by donation. Proceeds to Kimberley Arts Council & Expansion Project.Upstairs/Downstairs Community Garage Sale, Cranbrook United Church. Saturday April 26, 9:00 a.m. Table rentals $10. Set up Friday 25th - 1:30 to 4:30 or by appointment. Crafters, Downsizers, Upsizers, Specialty, and Charitable fundraiser vendors welcome. Lunch bar available between 11:00 and 1:00. Call 250-426-2022 for details or to rent a table.DANCE to ‘The Pacemakers’ APRIL 26 at the Cranbrook Seniors HALL at 7 pm, following the afternoon ‘JAM Session’ & Ice-cream Social, at 1:30 PM. All are welcome to come out to both events. Info: Flo 250.489.2720.East Kootenay Historical Assoc Meeting Sunday, April 27th, 12:00 noon at Heritage Inn. Guest Speaker: Joe Pierre. Dues $10.00. Please phone Marilyn 426-3070 or Skip 426-3679.United Way-Meeting Tuesday, April 29th, 5:30pm in the Community Living Building 1402–1st St. S. Everyone welcome to attend.April 30, Wed - ELBOW ROOM ONLY - A Year of Teaching and Travel in China with presenter Cathy Conroy. Next - the changes and challenges China and its people face in present times - while remembering and preserving their past. College of the Rockies Lecture Theatre 7:00 Admission by donation. INFO: Norma 250-426-6111.

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Feel like a little song-writing this spring? Why not cele-brate Canada?

The Honourable Ju-dith Guichon, Lieu-tenant Governor of Brit-ish Columbia has an-nounced a new pro-gram to promote music and community spirit across the province. “Sing Me A Song” is an opportunity for musical groups of all ages and genres to write and sing an original song in the lead up to Canada’s 150th birthday celebra-tions in 2017. Groups are encouraged to write a song about what Can-ada’s 150th birthday means to them or their community. Each entry will be reviewed by a panel of musicians from around the province and an award of $1,000 will be granted annually in each of three age cat-egories. Entries will be posted on the Lieu-tenant Governor’s web-site and YouTube chan-nel, Sing Me A Song BC, to be viewed by all Brit-ish Columbians. Appli-cations can be acquired at http://www.ltgov.bc.ca/lg/priority-pro-grams/song/default.html

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WaTermarkWildsight and the

Canadian Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish-eries Commission pres-ent the film Watermark and a Ktunaxa speaker on water. The events are on April 24, 7:30 p.m at Key City Theatre in Cranbrook and on April 25, 7 p.m. at Centre 64 in Kimberley. Tickets for the evening are avail-able in advance for $10 online at wildsight.ca/watermark or for $13 at the door.

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Support Selkirk grads this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Sel-kirk Secondary gym, as they raise funds for grad activities.

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The Friends of the Cranbrook Public Li-brary will be holding a garage sale on Saturday, April 26 from 9 am to 1 pm. Donations for the sale will be gratefully ac-cepted on Friday, April 25 from 9 am to 8 pm.

All proceeds from the sale go to support li-brary programs and ser-vices.

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WorkshoPOn Saturday April

26th, CDAC will be put-ting on a Beginners Henna Workshop by local Artist Raylene. Price for this workshop is: $35/person (all sup-plies included). To reg-ister for this workshop, please phone 426-4223 and talk to Marisa or email: [email protected]. The Beginners Henna Workshop will be held at the CDAC Gallery, lo-cated at: Room #104, 135 10th Avenue South, Cranbrook.

saT. aPril 26roller derBy

If you feel like hitting the road for a short road trip,why not take in the opening bout in the sea-son’s Roller Derby bat-tles? East Kootenay Roll-er Derby League kicks off it’s Summer 2014 season with a dou-ble-header bout in Canal Flats Arena. This is a family-friendly event ... fun for all ages! First Bout: 6 p.m. (Kim-berley’s “Bavarian Bar-barians” vs. Calgary’s “Cut Throat Car Hops”). Second Bout: 8 p.m. (In-vermere’s “Killer Roll-bots” vs. Elkford’s “Wild-cat Brawlers”)Beer Gar-den will be open. 50/50 tickets will be sold. Adults: $10; Kids: $5.00; Five and under free. Tickets available at the door. Please bring an item for the Food Bank. w w w . e a s t ko o t e nay -rollerderby.com

saT. aPril 26locals coffee

houseTickets: Advance

Tickets ($8) available at Lotus Books (across from City Hall) in Cran-brook. Tickets will also be available at the door if the show is not sold out. Line-Up: Daze of Grace, Erin & Ferdy, Doug Mitchell, Josh

Norgard, Tom Bungay, Robin Sudo & Jim Cam-eron The Good Ol’ Goats

saT. aPril 26home groWn

The final coffee house of the season, will be held at Centre 64, 8 pm sharp, doors open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets avail-able at the Snow Drift Cafe $7 or at Centre 64. Stacy and Bud Decosse, Ray Gareau, Fraser Armstrong, Cathy Con-roy, Stuart Campbell, Valley Class – Shelagh Redecopp, Dana Morri-son and Linda Burton, Jordan and Garrett Symes, Tim Plait and Marta Zeegers. MC Don Davies.

saT. aPril 26social dance

Dance to ‘The Pace-makers’ April 26 at the Cranbrook Seniors Hall at 7 p.m., following the afternoon ‘Jam Session’ & Ice-cream Social, at 1:30 p.m. All are wel-come to come out to both events. Info: Flo 250-489-2720.

sun. aPril 27marysville PuBElena Yeung and the

Kootenay Special will play the Marysville Pub Sunday April 27 3pm

Wed. aPril 30TriBune aT The

ByngThe band Tribune is

on their Canada Slays Tour in promotion of their latest album ‘Tales’, a concept album in-spired entirely by litera-ture and features a wide array of influences, from Homer to Mary Shelley to H.P. Lovecraft, to more extreme music in-fluences such as Car-cass, Death and At The Gates.

Wed. aPril 30Travelogue

GoGo Granny’s sea-son finale Travelogue, ELBOW ROOM ONLY - A Year of Teaching and Travel in China with presenter Cathy Conroy. 56 different cultural groups and 1.4 Billion citizens – China is a country of extremes and contrasts. Take a look at China’s past through travels to wild and for-gotten parts of The Great Wall, to the foot-hills of the Himalayas, and the cold Northern border regions near Russia and North Korea. College of the Rockies Lecture Theatre 7:00 Admission by donation. Please join us as we sup-

port Grandmothers in Africa

mon. may 5, inTernaTional day

of midWivesJoin East Kootenay

midwives from 12 to 3 p.m. on the track at the College of the Rockies as clients, former clients and supporters of East Kootenay Midwives and Perinatal health. Cele-brate the International Day of Midwives with a meet and greet, short program, children’s en-tertainment and snacks. Walk around the track.

may 8 To 11mounT Baker Wild

TheaTreMount Baker pres-

ents Urinetown the Mu-sical. Book and lyrics by Greg Kotis, and music and lyrics by Mark Holl-man. 7:30, and at 2 p.m. on the 11th. The show is performed at the Key City theatre, and tickets are $15 for adults, and $18 for students and se-niors. They are available online, and at the Key City box office.

saT. may 10sun valley song sPring concerT“Music to Lift the

Spirit” Saturday May 10 at 730 p.m. and Sunday May 11 at 230 p.m. Knox Presbyterian Church, corner of Victoria Ave and 3rd Street South. $10 Adults and $5 Youth (12 and under). Tickets at Lotus Books, from Choir Members or at the door.

saTurday, may 17cranBrook Pride

dance10 p.m. at Dewey’s

Pub. Cranbrook Pride seeks to celebrate strength through diver-sity by staging a day of fun and excitement, in-cluding family-oriented activities in the after-noon, and a dance, with live entertainment, at Dewey’s, on the 17th of May. If you’re a per-former and want to help, contact Megan Madison at the_ mOrr 1 [email protected] for more information.

saT. may 24dance WiTh me

cranBrookDance With Me

Cranbrook will be host-ing a dinner dance at the Royal Alexandra Hall in the Railway Mu-seum on Saturday May 24th This will be a wind up for our spring ses-sion. Catering by Heidi of the Heidout. Tickets will be available after April 15th and will be limited to 60 people. Let us know early if you would like to reserve a ticket and mark it on your calender.

saT. may 24The mishras

Coming next to the Theatre at Centre 64 are Indian tabla musicians, The Mishras, returning for a third or fourth ap-pearance here on May 24. They will be followed on May 31 by boo-gie-woogie blues pianist Kenny ‘Blues Boss’ Wayne who will perform in a cabaret-style eve-ning in the dance studio at Centre 64. Tickets for both events are avail-able at Centre 64 and on line at www.kimberley-arts.com.

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Spring into spring entertainment

Back by popular demand, the Mishras return to Centre 64 in May.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2014

This is the second of two columns ad-dressing what I see as the greatest threat to the BC environment in our

lifetime. The oil industry wants to export Alberta

bitumen to Asia via tankers. Under no cir-cumstances should we allow that to hap-pen. A bitumen spill at sea could destroy our coastline, together with the fish and wildlife that depend on it, for hundreds of years.

My first column discussed the light oil spill by the Exxon Valdez and the terrible toll it took on the Alaskan habitat and fishery. It also gave proof that a bitu-men spill would be far worse. A bitumen spill would be al-most completely unrecover-able because it would sink and stay on the bottom of our seabed.

The solution that is best for Canada is to build a refinery in Kitimat. It will convert the bitumen to very light fuels that would float and evaporate if ever spilled. There are other enormous benefits:

There will be a major reduction in greenhouse gases. We will use new cut-ting-edge Canadian technology in our re-finery. It will be so clean that in combina-tion with oilsands extraction there will be less CO2 than in the huge conventional oilfields and refineries of Iraq and Nigeria. In other words the Kitimat refinery will neutralize the extra greenhouse gases gen-erated in Canada’s oilsands. This refinery will be built in Asia if not in Kitimat, and if so it will emit double the CO2 of our new design. This is the reason that Andrew

Weaver of the BC Green Party is in favour of a Canadian refinery.

An Asian refinery will also generate 100 train cars a day of very dirty coke (much fouler than BC coal) which will be subse-quently burnt in the atmosphere to create power. The Kitimat refinery will not result in the production of any coke. As we all live on one planet, it is far better for the global environment to build this refinery in Cana-da.

Construction of the refinery will create 6,000 jobs in BC for five years. Operations at the re-finery will result in more permanent jobs than any project has ever created in BC with approximately 3,000 direct jobs. These will be highly paid permanent jobs. These jobs will be

available for the life of the refinery which should be in excess of 50 years. In addition there will be thousands of other jobs creat-ed in spinoff local petrochemical compa-nies and in indirect employment through-out the province.

The Canadian and Provincial govern-ments, local regional districts and munici-palities, and many First Nations, will share in billions of new tax dollars each year.

Unfortunately our Canadian oil compa-nies are not interested in building a new major refinery. They are focused on ex-traction which is more profitable than refin-ing. One of them challenged me to put my money where my mouth is, so I am doing that. We have a solid business plan for a profitable refinery and as a consequence Chinese banks and other institutions are

prepared to lend us most of the funds re-quired to build the greenest and most effi-cient refinery in the world. We are currently moving ahead with engineering design and environmental work.

We will also build a safe pipeline from Alberta to the refinery. Modern pipelines can be built and operated safely. Leak data is available for everyone to see on Canadian and US government websites and it proves recently constructed pipelines are not leak-ing. Furthermore some of the best pipelin-ing companies in the world are based in Canada.

In addition we will build a fleet of new tankers, powered by LNG rather than Bun-ker C oil, to transport the refined products to Asia. This way we know the tankers will be state-of-the-art and as safe as possible. The fleet will be owned by a company based in BC so it cannot shirk its legal liability if there ever is a spill at sea.

Let me be up front about my biases. I am for creating thousands of good permanent jobs in B.C. I am for creating billions of new tax dollars for government coffers. I am for reducing the planet’s greenhouse gas emis-sions. I am for building an oil pipeline that will never leak. I am for building a modern tanker fleet that carries only refined fuels that float and evaporate if spilled. I am against shipping bitumen in tankers.

If you agree that we should not put bitu-men in tankers please contact your local MP and say so. The Canadian government makes a decision on this next month.

David Black is the majority owner of Black Press, the company that

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The NCAA ice hockey championship team has a Kimberley connection.

Matt Wilkins, who was born and raised in the community, is a Division I champi-on after helping the Union College Dutch-men to a 7-4 victory over the Minnesota Golden Gophers.

In front of 18,000 fans at the Wells Fargo Centre—home of the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers—the Dutchmen scored four goals in the first period and added another three in the final frame to lock up the title for the first time in the institution’s history.

“It’s been about a week now,” said Wilkins, in a phone interview. “I think it’s finally sunk in. It’s pretty surreal, just to be at the Frozen Four then to bring it home, it’s pretty special.”

The Dutchmen finished on top of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference with an 18-3-1 record, ending their season with an overall team performance of 32-6-

4, which ranked them third overall in the NCAA.

With single-elimination games in a field of 16 teams, the Dutchmen blew through the first two rounds, defeating the Univer-sity of Vermont Catamounts and the Prov-idence Friars, which set up a semifinal match against the Boston College Eagles—the top-ranked hockey team in the coun-try.

“BC and Minnesota, they’re two pretty storied programs and we were sort of looked at as the underdog, but we’ve been up there in that third spot basically all year,” Wilkins said.

“Our programs are smaller, and people don’t know much about us, but I think we did a good job in changing that.”

The Dutchmen edged the Eagles with a 5-4 upset, scoring three goals in the third period to break a 2-2 tie and earn a berth into the NCAA final against the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers.

Not bad for a small-town kid in the Ca-

nadian Rockies. “It’s hard to imagine even going to play

hockey somewhere, so there’s a lot of peo-ple who helped along the way,” said Wilkins.

Wilkins played two seasons with the Kimberley Dynamiters of the KIJHL before jumping up to Junior A with the Trail Smoke Eaters of the BCHL for a year. He then headed into the AJHL with the Brooks Bandits for two seasons, winning the league title in his final year of eligibility in 2012.

He also racked up some individual honours, such as being named to all star teams in both years with the Bandits, as well as leading the AJHL in points in the regular season before capturing the league title in his final year.

After fielding a few offers from other post-secondary institutions, Wilkins set-tled on Union, based on the hockey and academic programs and is in the middle of majoring in history.

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Union College, which features Kimberley native Matt Wilkins on the roster, captured the men’s ice hockey NCAA championship last week.

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Russia edges Canada in shootout at U18 eventC ANADIAN PRESS

IMATRA, Finland - Canada lost more than just its final prelimi-nary-round game at the world under-18 hockey tournament Tuesday.

Kirill Pilipenko scored in the shootout to earn Russia a 3-2 win over Canada, the de-fending champions’ first defeat at the event.

But the Canadians also lost forward Brayden Point to an upper-body injury in the first period that’s expected to side-line him for the remind-er of the tournament.

Russian Danil Vovchenko drove Point head-first into the boards at 7:23 of the first. Vovchenko re-ceived a five-minute

major for checking from behind and a game misconduct on the play.

“That’s a huge loss for our side,” Canadian team coach Kevin Dineen said. “He’s a big part of so many facets of our game.

“He plays on both of our special teams and centres the top line.

He’s a big loss but that’s the advantage, we have other people to fill roles.”

Point had an assist in Canada’s four pre-liminary-round games but the five-nine, 160-pound Calgary native recorded 36 goals and 55 assists in 72 games this season with the WHL’s Moose Jaw War-

riors.Pilipenko scored on

Russia’s first shot of the shootout against Cana-dian goalie Mason Mc-Donald. But it was all the offence the Rus-sians needed as Cana-da’s Conner Bleackley, Jared McCann and Jake Virtanen all couldn’t beat goalie Alexander Trushkov.

Moyes leaves as Man United manager after English giant’s sudden decline

MANCHESTER, England - David Moyes was fired as Manchester United manager Tuesday, paying the price for the club’s spectacular and sudden decline in his 10 months in charge since replacing Alex Fer-guson.

United released a brief statement on its website, saying Moyes has “left the club” and that it “would like to place on record its thanks for the hard work, honesty and integrity he brought to the role.”

There was no initial announcement about who would replace Moyes.

Moyes’ position has been in doubt since Sunday, when United lost 2-0 to Everton in the Premier League to ensure England’s biggest club over the last two decades will miss out on Champions League qualification for the first time in 19 years.

It also left United seventh in the league, a season after winning its 20th championship by 11 points, and on course for its lowest league finish since 1990.

Moyes was hand-picked by Ferguson, who ended his 27-year reign at the end of last season after win-ning the league for his 38th major trophy as United manager, and signed a six-year deal at a club famed for preaching the values of stability.

But Moyes has been unable to continue the suc-cess of Ferguson, with the team’s domestic form woeful by its high standards.

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San Antonio Spurs’ Gregg Popovich named NBA

Coach of the YearSan Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich has

been named NBA coach of the year, making him just the third coach in league history to win the award three times in his career.

The NBA announced the honour on Tuesday. He has won it twice in the last three seasons and joins Don Nelson and Pat Riley as the only coaches to win the award three times.

Popovich led the Spurs to a league-best 62-20 record, which gives them home-court advantage throughout the playoffs. Popovich has led the Spurs to 15 straight 50-win seasons and has won 60 games four times in that span.

Popovich garnered 59 first-place votes. Phoe-nix’s Jeff Hornacek finished second and Chicago’s Tom Thibodeau finished third in the voting.

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Local athletes pick up year-end awards at SAIT

Local student athletes have picked up honours from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology Trojans athletics programs.

Three graduates from Mount Baker Secondary School—Chris Rushworth, Erin White, and Sam Scott were all selected for team awards in their re-spective sports.

Rushworth, who is with the men’s soccer pro-gram, picked up the MVP award, and was also nom-inated for male athlete of the year for the entire athletics program.

Rushworth is a second year student studying business administration.

In women’s soccer, Cranbrook native Erin White earned the Freshman of the Year award, playing her first year with the program while studying nutrition for healthy lifestyles.

With the men’s volleyball program, Sam Scott, another Mount Baker graduate, picked up the award for unsung hero. Scott is in the second year of a civil engineering technology program.

Trevor Crawley

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NEW DELHI — On Ever-est, everybody knows that the Khumbu Icefall is dan-gerous. They’ve known it for generations, since the first great Everest moun-taineer, George Mallory, turned away from the Ice-fall in 1921, insisting it was impossible to pass.

It is a river of ice, a kilo-metre (half mile) or so of constantly shifting glacier punctuated by deep cre-vasses and overhanging im-mensities of ice that can be as large as 10-story build-ings. It can move two me-ters (six feet) in just one day. Crossing it can take 12 hours.

In the Khumbu Icefall, crevasses can open — or close — in less than a day. Ropes can be snapped by the moving ice, ladders bro-ken. Looming glaciers — on the Icefall itself or on the Western ridge of Everest — can break off in a moment, setting off avalanches that send thousands of tons of ice down the mountain.

That is what happened last week when a piece of glacier sheared away from the mountain, setting off an avalanche of ice that killed 16 Sherpa guides as they ferried clients’ equipment up the mountain. It was the deadliest disaster in Everest climbing history.

“It’s always something we fear,’’ said Adrian Ball-inger, a high-altitude mountaineering guide who has climbed Everest six times, and who is taking cli-ents up the mountain again this year through the Ice-fall. “This didn’t surprise those of us who spend a lot of time on Everest,’’ he said. “We’ve been living on bor-rowed time.’’

But climbers keep going there. Because if you want to get to the summit of Mount Everest, you proba-bly need to go through the Khumbu Icefall.

The mountain’s geogra-phy means the Icefall is the only way to reach the com-

paratively easy South Col route up Everest, making it impossible to resist for plenty of people.

“Everest is an enormous draw,’’ said Stuart Macdon-ald, an international moun-tain guide and avalanche expert. “It pulls people in.’’

Hundreds of people now pass through the Icefall every year, pushed along by a mountaineering machine designed to take wealthy amateurs to the summit, with climbing trips costing upwards of $75,000 per per-son.

“If it wasn’t the tallest mountain in the world, you would never put yourself on a glacier this active,’’ said Ballinger.

Safety in the Khumbu — at least relative safety —

comes only with speed.“We look up at these

chunks of ice blocks, pray and then try to get out of the area as fast as we can,’’ said Nima Sherpa, 34, an experienced Everest guide from the tiny Himalayan community that has be-come famous for its high-al-titude skills and endurance.

Nima Sherpa did not climb this season, and with the deaths of his friends and colleagues — the bod-ies of 13 guides have been found since the Friday ava-lanche, and three more are missing and presumed dead — he now says he’ll give up high-altitude climb-ing completely.

“It is not just the Sher-pas, but the foreign climb-ers are also scared,’’ he said.

But not so scared they won’t go. And the more people there are, the slower the route through the Ice-fall, as the line of climbers backs up.

While top guides can cross the most dangerous sections of the Icefall in less than a half hour, beginners could take a few hours to go the same distance.

That means more time standing on shifting ground, and more time ex-posed to the seracs, the huge chunks of ice that can tumble down on climbers from above.

Most climbers have to make multiple passes through the Icefall, moving up and down the mountain as they acclimatize and prepare for their summit at-

tempt. Sherpas can go more than two dozen times, car-rying supplies and helping clients negotiate the maze of ice.

In terms of distance, it isn’t much at all, even fol-lowing the back-and-forth climbing route up the gla-cier.

“We’re only talking about a couple of kilome-tres maximum,’’ said Mac-donald. “As the crow flies, it’s just not far.’’

But it is a trip that can terrify even hardened mountaineers. Jon Krakau-er, a climber and writer, has described each pass through the Khumbu as “a little like playing a round of Russian roulette.’’

Special teams of Sher-pas, known as Icefall Doc-

tors, fix ropes through what they hope to be the safest paths, and use aluminum ladders to bridge crevasses. But the Khumbu shifts so much that they need to go out every morning, before the climbers, to repair sec-tions that have broken overnight and move the climbing route if need be.

But Icefall Doctors, fixed ropes and experienced guides don’t mean it is safe. Almost 30 climbers have died on the Icefall since 1963, most killed in ava-lanches or when they were crushed by falling seracs. Occasionally, things are so dangerous the guides turn away completely. In 2012, one of the best-known Ev-erest guiding operations, Himalayan Experience, cancelled its climb midway through the season, saying the Icefall was simply too dangerous.

Ballinger and Macdon-ald are both part of a new wave of Everest guiding, with teams planning ap-proaches to reduce the time spent on the Icefall.

For up to eight weeks be-fore Ballinger’s clients even arrive in Nepal, they sleep in enclosed “hypoxic tents,’’ simulating life at high alti-tudes by limiting their oxy-gen. Then, once they get to Nepal, they acclimatize fur-ther on mountains other than Everest, to avoid the Khumbu.

In the end, he says, his clients will make only two passes through the Icefall — once up to the summit and once down — and the team’s Sherpas will go be-tween five and eight times. That is about one-third the number of trips that Sher-pas make on normal climbs.

It’s all about exposure. “How long will the Sherpas be exposed, how long will the guides be exposed, how long will the clients be ex-posed,’’ he said.

But, he warns everyone on his team, the risk is still there. “Every person has to make their own choice,’’ he said.

On Everest, mountaineers, Sherpas have long known Khumbu’s danger

Fearing the iceFall

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traversing a crevasse in the Khumbu icefall

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