Kimberley Daily Bulletin, January 07, 2014

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JUDICIAL REVIEWIn court this week.

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FOUR HELD IN CUSTODYThe accused in Cranbrook home invastions; one denied bail, three held until hearings.

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H1N1 flu outbreak in

Alberta, Lower

MainlandIt’s not too late to get a flu shot

C AROLYN GR [email protected]

The H1N1 flu virus is breaking out in Alberta and the Lower Main-land as the new year be-gins.

The Canadian Press reports 965 confirmed cases of the flu in Alber-ta and 270 of those peo-ple are in hospital.

In the Lower Main-land at least 20 people are in intensive care, some of them on venti-lators, due to H1N1 in-fluenza.

In Alberta, the prob-lem is magnified by the fact that only 21 per cent of the general public and 49 per cent of health-care workers have had flu shots. Al-berta began offering mass immunization clinics in many commu-nities last Friday.

In B.C. flu shots are mandatory for health-

care workers. The gen-eral public does have a choice, but anyone vis-iting any type of health care facility must either wear a mask or produce proof of a flu shot.

This year’s flu shot does contain a vaccine for the H1N1 strain, and if you haven’t had one yet, Public Health Nurse Terri Fergus at the Kim-berley Health Centre says vaccines are still available.

“No, it’s not too late to get a flu shot and yes, we still have vaccines available,” Fergus said.

Fergus said that as far as she knows there is no shortage of the vac-cine.

If you qualify to re-ceive a free shot (quali-fication details can be found at interiorhealth.ca), you can call the public health nurse in Kimberley (250-427-2215) or Cranbrook (250-420-2207) and ar-range a time to get a shot.

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FLU SEASON

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The Bavarian Barbarians roller derby team is recruiting new members now

Roller Derby’s Bavarian

Barbarians are looking for fresh meat

C AROLYN GR [email protected]

It’s January, the time of year when we stare our New Year’s resolution in the face. One of the most common resolutions is to be more fit

in the coming year. While that is one of the more pop-ular resolutions, it is also one of the more difficult to hold yourself to.

But if you could find a way to keep fit while mak-ing new friends, competing in a fun league and travel-ling a bit around the Koote-nays, would that change your mind?

That’s what Kimberley’s roller derby team the Bavar-ian Barbarians are offering.

It’s time for their annual Fresh Meat recruiting drive.

With the 2014 season about to start, the Bavarian Barbarians are looking for derby girls, refs, non-skat-ing officials, and volunteers.

If you are interested in any of the above, there is an information night sched-uled for this Thursday, Jan-uary 9 at Resker Hall in Marysville from 7 to 9 p.m.. Drop by and meet the team, learn about derby and try some skates.

The Barbarians are also offering a series of skills sessions/training camps

through the next few weeks. On Thursday evenings, Jan-uary 16 through February 13, you can learn some of the basic skills required to join a team or referee roller derby matches.

The first two practices are free, the rest only $5 each. Full gear will be pro-vided. The sessions run from 7 to 9 p.m.

Come out and discover the world of roller derby and skate your way to fit-ness and fun.

Have a smashing new year

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Jeff ConnersLike many smokers,

Dan wants to quit. He has heard that electron-ic cigarettes, also known as e-cigarettes, eCigs or vapour cigarettes, might be helpful. But with all the controversy about them in the news and on the internet, he isn’t sure.

Dan is skeptical. He has noticed e-cigarettes are not just sold in phar-macies like other quit smoking aids. They can be found at convenience stores and gas stations often strategically placed near conven-tional cigarettes. Dan also knows that tobacco companies are making them and he doesn’t trust that they would make a product to help people quit smoking.

Dan also wonders how they can help smokers quit when they look and act like regular cigarettes. He has heard that quitting smoking can be as difficult as quitting heroin but he also knows that when people are trying to quit injecting heroin doctors don’t prescribe a drug delivered through a needle.

E-cigarettes are ciga-rette-shaped tubes that simulate the sensation of smoking. Batteries in the tubes heat up a fluid filled cartridge that gives off a vapour which looks like smoke. Although the jury is still out on e-cigarettes, there are health and safety con-cerns that Dan should be aware of.

Health Canada re-cently advised Canadi-ans not to purchase electronic cigarettes be-cause they have not been fully evaluated for safety. (www.healthyca-nadians.gc.ca/recall-alert-rappel-avis/hc-sc/2009/13373a-eng.php)

There are concerns that electronic cigarettes may make smoking so-cially acceptable again, especially if used in smoke free places. Be-cause e-cigarettes re-lease a vapour and not smoke, there are cur-rently very few rules about where they can and can’t be used. The result is e-cigarettes being used in places where smoking has been banned like class-rooms, pubs and shop-ping malls.

E-cigarettes might encourage young peo-ple to start smoking. In Canada, e-cigarettes cannot contain nicotine but they can contain kid-friendly flavours ranging from bacon to bubble gum, flavouring that could encourage youth to smoke e-ciga-rettes as well as real to-bacco products.

Dan decides e-ciga-rettes are not worth the risk. Instead, he plans to talk with his health care professional and visit quitnow.ca for tips, tools and support.

Jeff Conners is a Tobacco Reduction

Coordinator with Interior Health

Photo by Linda RiffeL

Cranbrook’s last baby for 2013! In keeping with tradition, the Cranbrook Health Care Auxiliary has presented Elizabeth Dawn Hoyt with a number of gifts, welcoming her birth. Elizabeth was born December 31 at the East Kootenay Regional Hospital. Pictured here are Elizabeth, her parents, Valarie and Burton, and CHCA President Rachel Christie.

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Christmas stockings for Christmas babies. For the past 35 years, Evelyn Botteril, a life member with the Cranbrook Health Care Auxiliary, has been making Christmas stockings for babies born between December 24 and 26 at the East Kootenay Regional Hospital. Each year she makes, and delivers to the hospital, about 10 stockings. This year, Kate Fox, a CHCA Director, presented the stockings to Gwen Manarey, EKRH Maternity Ward Unit Clerk, on her behalf. This year six babies received their stockings.

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This web poll is informal. It reflects opinions of site visitors who voluntarily participate. Results may not represent the opinions of the public as a whole. Black Press is not responsible for the statistical accuracy of opinions expressed here.

of the “Are you making a New Year’s resolution?”

This week’s poll: “Given the outbreak of H1N1 in the Lower Mainland and Alberta, are you

considering getting a flu shot?”

YEs: 100%

MIKE REDFERNFor the Bulletin

If you are interested in learning the basics of the technical aspects of the-atre productions this may be an op-portunity for you.

Kimberley Arts Council is hoping to train some interested residents to become theatre technicians at Centre 64. KAC president Mike Redfern says the arts council is hoping to train and hire up to six people on a part-time basis to provide essential oversight and direction of the technical aspects of productions at the theatre.

“In addition to running lights and, occasionally, sound effects, we want to train responsible people to take care of our equipment and to help with both the creative and operating aspects of lighting and sound effects in the Theatre at Centre 64. Once trained, the theatre technicians will have the opportunity to be in charge of the technical aspects of plays and concerts for users of the venues. The technicians will be paid an hourly wage for these duties,” says Redfern.

Responsibilities will mainly involve

supervising use of technical equip-ment and stage curtains and props by theatre users, ensuring that theatre equipment inventories are main-tained in good condition, and running lights and, possibly, sound effects for specific productions.

“Centre 64 has suffered some equipment losses and damage in the past that have resulted in additional expense to the arts council and incon-venience to other theatre users. The use of the Theatre at Centre 64 for concerts, film shows, plays and other performances is expected to continue to increase during 2014 and we need to prevent further losses or damage by having all future stage productions supervised by competent theatre technicians,” says Redfern.

A training session with Terry Ma-cham will be held in the theatre on Saturday, January 18, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Registration is free and anyone interested in taking part is invited to contact Mike Redfern at [email protected] by Wednesday, January 15, for more detailed information and to register.

Theatre technicians to be trained at Centre 64

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The Ktunaxa’s petition against the province’s approval of

Jumbo Glacier Resort began in Supreme Court

on Monday, January 6

Sally MacDoNalDTownsman Staff

Jumbo Glacier Resort is the subject of a court case that is underway as of Monday, Jan. 6.

The Ktunaxa Nation Council has petitioned for a judicial review that will determine whether the B.C. government acted appropriately when it approved a Mas-ter Development Agree-ment for Jumbo Glacier Resort in March 2012.

“We are seeking to have the province’s deci-sion around the approv-al of the Master Develop-ment Agreement quashed, or at least re-viewed,” said Ktunaxa Nation Council Chair

Kathryn Teneese.The four-season ski

resort has been ap-proved by the B.C. gov-ernment to begin con-struction on Jumbo Gla-cier, 55 kilometres west of Invermere.

The Ktunaxa calls this location Qat’muk, which has great spiritual signif-icance for its people as the home of the grizzly bear spirit.

After the province ap-proved Jumbo’s Master Development Agree-ment in 2012, the Ktu-naxa felt the significance of Qat’muk had not been taken into account.

“When we read their reasons for decision, we felt that they had not taken into consideration all of the information that we had provided with respect to our con-nection to the place and the connection to our spirituality,” said Te-neese.

“We are asking the court to determine whether the decision that was taken by the province was indeed taken with full informa-tion.”

The judicial review is scheduled to commence

on Monday in Vancou-ver Supreme Court and last for 10 days. However, Teneese said that as of Friday, the hearing had not been confirmed to be going ahead as sched-uled because of a short-age of Supreme Court justices.

“We are proceeding as if it is, because that’s what we’ve been told,” said Teneese. “I’m scheduled to fly out on Monday morning, so I’m going to be there, and hopefully there will be court.”

In a judicial review, the three parties – in this case, the Ktunaxa, the B.C. government, and Jumbo Glacier Resorts Ltd – prepare written af-fidavits that are present-ed to the court.

“Over the past while, there has been an ex-change of huge amounts of documentation that sets out what our respec-tive arguments are,” said Teneese.

The Ktunaxa hope that East Kootenay resi-dents who support their steps to protect Qat’muk will let them know.

“We know there is a significant number of

folks in the region – and probably outside of the region – who did not agree with the decision either,” said Teneese. “Any kind of reflection of that, we would be most appreciative of.”

In November, the Ktunaxa held a special event attended by hun-dreds at the Key City Theatre, which ex-plained the significance of Qat’muk through sto-ries, singing and danc-ing.

“We certainly appre-ciated the numbers of people who spoke out,” said Teneese.

“I’m hoping that we are going to be able to do further events like that, in terms of sharing our perspective of our home-land with our neigh-bours.

“It has opened a door to move down this road of sharing and teaching each other about this place that we all call home. It’s obviously something that is impor

tant to all of us.”For more information

on Qat’muk, visit www.qatmuk.com.

Jumbo judicial review begins

Townsman file phoTo

Performers on stage during the Ktunaxa Nation’s special event about Qat’muk in Cranbrook in November 2013.

Four accused in series of

Cranbrook home invasions will stay in custody

Sally MacDoNalDTownsman Staff

Four people charged over a series of Cran-brook home invasions have appeared in Crim-inal Court.

Terrence Albert Allan, Andrew Daryl James Monnette, Megan Wynter Sands and Jay Leonard Hills each had brief court ap-pearances in Cran-brook Provincial Court on Monday, January 6.

The four were charged by RCMP who were investigating two home invasions and a break-in in Cranbrook over the holiday sea-son.

Megan Sands faces 16 charges including break and enter a dwelling with intent to commit an offence, dis-guising the face with intent to commit an of-fence, and use of a fire-arm in an offence.

She had appeared in Cranbrook court on Dec. 31, 2013 and Jan. 3, 2014 and has been denied bail.

Evidence revealed in a bail hearing cannot be published under a mandatory ban.

Sands will next ap-pear in court on Janu-ary 20.

Jay Hills faces nine charges, including rob-bery, disguising the face with intent to com-mit an offence, and ut-tering threats to cause death or bodily harm.

Awaiting legal coun-sel, Hills consented to stay in custody until a bail hearing is held for him on Jan. 15. Hills will remain in Cran-brook cells until that hearing.

Andrew Monnette has been charged with 22 offences, including uttering threats, assault with a weapon, break and enter a dwelling with intent to commit an offence, disguising the face with intent to commit an offence, and use of a firearm in an offence.

Monnette appeared in Cranbrook court via video from a pre-trial

centre. He agreed to stay in custody while waiting for his legal counsel to prepare for a bail hearing on Jan. 20.

Terrence Allan has been charged with 19 offences, uttering threats, break and enter a dwelling with intent to commit an offence, disguising the face with intent to commit an of-fence, and use of a fire-arm in an offence.

Also appearing via video from pre-trial custody, Allan agreed to stay in custody until a bail hearing on Feb. 3 in Cranbrook.

According to RCMP, a home on 1st Avenue South in Cranbrook was the location of a home invasion on Dec. 18. There was a break and enter at the same home on Dec. 24.

On Boxing Day, there was a second home invasion at a property on 6th Street North in Cranbrook.

RCMP said four peo-ple entered the resi-dence carrying a long gun, a shot gun, an Uzi-style firearm, brass knuckles and a baton. In both cases, electron-ic devices were stolen.

Home invasion four appear in court


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RECRUITMENT FOR COMMITTEES 2014CITY OF CRANBROOK

There are several opportunities for public participation and involvement in the City of Cranbrook advisory committees listed below.

Membership is open to residents of the City of Cranbrook.

Economic Development CommitteeThe Economic Development Committee provides advice and recommendations to Council on the City’s economic development strategy, Cranbrook’s competitive position, emerging economic development priorities and opportunities, and ensuring a sustainable resilient economy.

One position is available. Applicants shall represent the following economic sector: Energy and Natural Resources;

Environment and Utilities Committee The Environment and Utilities Committee provides advice and assistance to Council in the enhancement, restoration, management and protection of the City’s utilities and its built and natural environments, as well as ensuring that the community is planned to provide for environmental sustainability. Two positions are available.

Key City Theatre SocietyThe City of Cranbrook appoints two of the nine directors of the Key City Theatre Society. City appointed directors will be expected to provide regular reports to Cranbrook City Council on the operations of the Key City Theatre Society.

One position is available.

Terms of reference for all the committees are available on the City’s website – www.cranbrook.ca

Interested individuals are invited to submit a Volunteer Application form available at City Hall or the City’s website – www.cranbrook.ca.

Applications will be accepted at City Hall (attention Maryse Leroux) or by email [email protected] , no later than Friday, January 10, 2014 at 4:00 p.m. local time.

CHRISTMAS TREE DISPOSAL

The Regional District of East Kootenay Transfer Station is the designated area for disposal of Christmas trees. All residents are encouraged to have their discarded trees delivered to this area.

City trucks will make one pass through each neighbourhood on or after January 13, 2014 to pick up any remaining trees. If you are unable to dispose of your own tree, please leave it at your garbage collection location in a manner that will not conflict with snow removal equipment.

OPERATIONS SERVICES DEPARTMENT

PUBLIC NOTICEBC • CANADA BC • www.Kimberley.ca

From Page 1If you don’t qualify,

many local pharma-cies are still offering the shots.

According to the Lung Association, H1N1, also know as the swine flu is a high-ly contagious virus that infects the breath-ing tubes in your nose, throat, and lungs.

H1N1 flu symp-toms are similar to regular seasonal flu symptoms: fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, head-ache, chills, no appe-tite (don’t feel hun-gry), nausea, vomiting (throwing up) or diar-rhea and a runny nose.

For these symp-toms, the best thing to do is stay home and take care of yourself while not infecting others. However, H1N1 can produce more dangerous symptoms, even in otherwise health young adults. In fact the Fraser Health Au-thority told CBC News that many of those in intensive care were otherwise healthy young adults.

Warning signs of severe flu in children from www.lung.ca – get emergency help if kids show one or more of these signs:

• fast breathing or trouble breathing

• skin is bluish or gray

• blue or grey lips

• not drinking enough fluids, hasn’t peed (passed urine) in many hours, or no tears when she cries

• lots of vomit-ing (throwing up)

• not waking up, not paying at-tention to any-thing

• cranky, doesn’t want to be held

• seizures• child’s flu

symptoms im-prove but then come back; she has a fever and her cough is worse

Warning signs of severe flu in adults – get emergency help right away if you have one or more of these

signs:• it’s hard to

breathe, you’re short of breath

• blue or grey lips

• pain or pres-sure in your chest or stom-ach

• suddenly dizzy• confused• d e h y d r a t e d ,

not peeing (no urine)

• lots of vomit-ing (throwing up)

• seizures• your flu symp-

toms improve but then come back ; your cough is worse and you have a fever.

If you have these severe flu symptoms go to the emergency department right away or call 911 or your local emergency number.

If you have asthma, COPD or another flu risk factor and you get flu symptoms, call your doctor right away.

With a file from Ca-nadian Press.

H1N1 flu outbreak

Courtesy of the Kim-berley Heritage Muse-um archives

KIMBeRLeY NeWS NeWSPaPeR,

JaNuaRY 6, 1955TeLeVISIoN

DeMoNSTRaTIoN To Be HeLD SooN

A mass demonstra-tion of Television in Kimberley is planned for the very near future, officials of Kootenay Enterprises Limited stated today.

The company ex-pects to connect up with a downtown pub-lic hall where all dealers in the district will have the opportunity of dis-playing the various sets which will all be in op-eration at once.

“We want the gener-al public to see what ex-cellent reception we are getting in Kimberley and to have the oppor-tunity to look over the models available before making their choice,”

The Way it Was - Jan ‘55Ben Redisky of the Tele-vision company de-clared.

He also made it known that some lucky person will have the op-portunity of winning a free set and installation complete in connection with the show, which will be held at a date to be announced later.

In the meantime, weather has been on the side of the TV company whose main job at the moment is to complete the stringing of the highly sensitive coaxial cable to all parts of the city.

Already the down-town area is complete and city crews, who are carrying out the actual stringing of the wire, have headed out to the suburban areas. Well over 12,000 feet of cable have already been af-fixed to ‘messengers” on telephone poles.

But a freak accident, one never anticipated in the Pacific Northwest, deprived clubs and oth-ers who have sets from enjoying the TV during the New Year holiday.

A terrific storm at Spokane disrupted ser-vice from the Spokane station and temporarily

cut off Kimberley’s “source of supply”.

“While the installa-tion at Spokane is as modern as ingenuity and money could make it, no one anticipated such a storm as struck that area just before New Year’s,” Mr. Redisky said, pointing out that the American officials were speeding repairs and taking steps to see that the occurrence would not happen again.

4TH aVeNue geTS STReeT PRIoRITY

One street that will get attention this year if Mayor Cliff Swan has anything to do with it is 4th Avenue, Townsite.

In discussing public works with council Tuesday night, the mayor pointed oat that necessary work on 4th Avenue had been pro-vided for in the budgets of the past three years but had always got side-tracked when some-thing else came up.

“This year, 4th Ave-nue should get absolute priority,” he said.

Garden View fundraising committee member Tori McKinnon presents Bev Middlebrook, on behalf of the Youth of the Spark Youth Centre, a donation raised through Christmas fundraising. These funds will be used directly for the youth and their cooking and baking supplies.


OpiniOn/features

Readers of Black Press community newspapers across the Kootenays will have a chance to win a cool $1,000 for complet-ing an online survey that will help local businesses better understand customers in their community.

Black Press has partnered with respect-ed research company Pulse Research to bring the Pulse of East Kootenay survey to readers, which looks at the shopping plans and priorities of our readers and their media reading habits.

Reader answers will help gauge the cur-rent consumer climate to help local busi-nesses craft new ways to serve their clients and customers.

Responses will be kept completely con-fidential; reader contact information will only be gathered in order to enter the

name into a prize draw for one of five $1,000 cash prizes to be given away across the Kootenays.

Readers who submit the survey before January 31 will also have their name en-tered into a draw for a $20 grocery gift card.

The online survey will take about 35 to 40 minutes, erasing the need for readers to spend long periods of time on the phone answering questions.

“We are very excited to be a part of this service to the business community,” says Black Press group publisher Chuck Ben-nett. “We are pleased to be able to offer this information and are certain it will be ben-eficial.”

The Pulse Research survey has already been successful for businesses. In fact, one client took the results of the research to the

bank and was able to secure a loan to ex-pand their business, on the strength of the research.

Among the benefits of the study is al-lowing businesses to identify niche areas of their business, including showing po-tential areas for growth or expansion.

Pulse Research was founded in 1985 to provide publishing clients with re-search-based advertising sales and mar-keting programs designed to get results. They are able to deliver insight to busi-nesses who are currently faced with an ever-changing mix of products and ser-vices, including web, niche, special sec-tions and deals.

Check out www.pulseresearch.com/eastkootenay to complete the survey and to enter the prize draws.

Survey will gauge the pulseof East Kootenay communities

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ONGOINGCOME SKATE WITH US. Ongoing registration available for Pre-can, Canskate, StarSkate, Adult & Powerskate programs. Check us out at www.cranbrookskating.comStarting Jan 28th; Cranbrook Writer’s Group. This group of published and aspiring authors meet on the fourth Monday of the month at the arts council. Participants engage in writing exercises, constructive critiques and share in information on upcoming literary events and contests. Cranbrook and District Arts Council, 104 135 10th Ave South, CBK. info: 250-426-4223 www.cranbrookanddistrictartscouncil.comRoyal Canadian Legion Branch 24; Friday Meat Draw: 4:30- 6:30, Saturday Meat Draw: 3:30-5:30. The Cranbrook Skating Club is celebrating their 60th Anniversary with an Ice Show on March 1st, 2014 at Western Financial Place. We are looking to research the Club’s history and also locate previous skaters, coaches and judges. Contact Debbie Mandryk @ 250-489-2318 or [email protected] 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 778-481-4883Canadian 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.Do you have the desire to stop eating compulsively? Overeaters Anonymous (a 12-Step Program) meets Wednesdays from 7-8pm at Cranbrook United Church, 2-12th St. S., downstairs. Contact: [email protected] Galore at Bargain Prices. Bibles For Missions Thrift Store. Open Tues-Sat, 10am-5pm, 824 Kootenay St. N., Cranbrook. Funtastic Singers Drop-In Singing group; free to attend-just for fun! No experience necessary! CDAC O� ce&Gallery 135 10th Ave S, Tuesdays; 6.45-8.15pm 250-426-4223 / [email protected] / www.cranbrookanddistrictartscouncil.comICBL-Duplicate Bridge–Senior Center in Cranbrook. Mon & Wed 7pm, Thurs & Fri 1pm at Scout Hall, Marysville. Info: Maggie 250-417-2868.Cranbrook Branch of the Stroke Recovery Association of BC. Meetings are from 10:00am-1:00pm the 2nd and 4th Wed. in the lower level of the Senior Citizen’s Hall, 125-17th St. S. Bring bag lunch. Tootie Gripich, 426-3994.

UPCOMINGJan 11th – 31st Artists Marissa Phillips and the students of Mount Baker Secondary display a joint art exhibition exploring the Ktunaxa tradition of story-telling through media and performance. Open Tue - Fri 11am – 5pm and Saturdays 10am – 2pm.Cranbrook and District Arts Council, 104 135 10th Ave South, CBK. info: 250-426-4223 Abreast in the Rockies Dragonboat Assoc. Meeting Monday Jan. 13, 2014 at 7:00 pm, Mount Baker School Library. Interested paddlers welcome.January 14th. Kimberley Garden Club January program: Brainstorming educational gardening topics for 2014. Selkirk High School Library 7-9 pm. New members welcome. For more info: Nola 250-427-1948.2014 FREE FAMILY SWIM Wednesday, Jan. 15th, 6:00-7:00pm is sponsored by Knights of Columbus. Persons 18 years & younger must be accompanied by an adult.Thurs 16th Jan 7-9pm; To Tell A Story; This exhibition explores the Ktunaxa tradition of story-telling by artists from Mount Baker Secondary School and artists Marissa Phillips. Cranbrook and District Arts Council, 104 135 10th Ave South, CBK. info: 250-426-4223THE PACEMAKERS; JANUARY 18th, at the Cranbrook Seniors HALL, 2nd St. S. at 7 pm. Refreshments served. Open JAM, January 25, 1:30 pm. Updates: Flo 250. 489.2720.Wild Salmon Warriors Cranbrook chapter invites supporters to participate in the province wide “Boycott farmed salmon event” Jan 18 at SuperStore in Cranbrook 12:00 noon. info [email protected] or 250-444-7077“Holy Spirit Encounter” Sunday Evening January 19th, 7pm. Speakers: Darrell and Sondra White from Redding California; facilitate Inner Healing and Sozo Ministries and train teams to do the same at the Bethel Transformation Center. All are welcome! Free will o� ering taken. House of Hope Cranbrook, 629 -6th St NW Info: je� [email protected] or 250-421-3784The East Kootenay Railway Pensioners Association will be having a Social Luncheon at 12:30 pm, Tuesday Jan. 21, 2014 at Arthur’s Sports Bar & Grill( Day’s Inn ) 600 Cranbrook St.N,Cranbrook BC. All Railway Retiree’s and Spouses are welcome. RSVP by Jan. 17th, 2014. Info: Secretary Frances Allen at 250-426-2720 or Myrtle 250-426-2378,Jean 250-426-8338

Charlene StropkyHave you ever given your

child a time-out for calling a purple toy yellow?

Have you taken away a priv-ilege when your child cannot use the pedals on his tricycle?

Have you removed all the blocks because your child could only stack four instead of seven?

These may sound like silly scenarios — using discipline techniques when a child has not yet learned a skill — and yet this happens all the time as children are learning the com-plex skills of interacting and getting along with others.

While we patiently and re-petitively teach our children about colours, counting or get-ting dressed, we are not always as patient or aware of all the skills needed for positive social experiences.

Children need to: learn lan-guage; understand facial ex-pressions; understand their own feelings; understand the feelings of others; be able to control strong impulses; re-member expectations and deny their own heart’s desire; and balance their own wants and needs with the wants and needs of others. Even as adults, it is difficult to always abide by these expectations.

How your child reacts and responds to social learning and interactions is strongly influ-enced by his temperament. Temperament refers to a child’s natural approaches and reac-tions to the world. By observing your child, you can see if he is most likely to be active or quiet, if he adapts easily to new situa-tions or if he takes a longer time to warm up, if his emo-tional reactions are intense or mild, or if he is able to stay fo-cussed or if he is easily distract-ed by what is happening around him. Tuning in to your

child’s temperament can help you to adapt the environment and your expectations in order to anticipate and prevent or soften the challenges that may arise.

There are many ways to support and foster your child’s development of social skills:

• Provide close supervision when children are in groups.

• Practice the language and actions of sharing and turn tak-ing during play and routine times with your child.

• Do not force children to apologize. Instead, make them aware of how their action af-fected someone else, and work with your child to “make it bet-ter”. As your child matures, he will become more sensitive to the feelings of others. As long as he has been provided with lots of examples (especially from you), he will be able to offer an apology that is truly heartfelt and sincere.

• Forcing children to share may make them even more possessive. We all have favorite items that we don’t like to share. Or a child may have a plan in mind that requires ALL the pieces of something. Try to understand the situation. Sometimes, encouraging a child to share is appropriate. At other times, it is appropriate to expect a child to have to wait for a turn. A child who has to wait for a turn can learn ways to make the waiting easier.

• Think of yourself as a coach — be close by to help

your child read a situation and respond in a positive way. If your child doesn’t remember the words to use or is hesitant to ask for a turn, or to protect his space or belongings, say the words for him or provide some prompting. Maybe he will copy you or try them next time. At least he will know that you un-derstand what he is feeling.

• Show children the results of their actions. “Emily looks really happy because you shared the playdough with her”. “Alyssa is crying because you took away the cars”.

• If you haven’t seen a whole situation develop and unfold, don’t assume to know what happened. All too often, the “wrong” child gets blamed and punished. As Henry Ford said, “Look for solutions, not blame”.

• Save time-outs or the re-moval of privileges for the most serious situations, and try to look upon the others as oppor-tunities to learn and practice new skills.

• Aggression towards others usually peaks at around three years old. As a child learns other ways of communicating and problem solving, and his brain matures and develops, aggressive actions should sub-side. Your child’s temperament will play a large role in deter-mining his level of aggression and impulsiveness. Children who are more naturally aggres-sive and impulsive require very close supervision and swift in-tervention in social conflicts.

• Do not do or say anything to your child or to others that you do not want your child to do or say to others. Our chil-dren are always watching us. Teach by example. Show caring behaviour towards your child and towards others.

If you have concerns about how your child is managing social learning, talk to some-one about it. A good place to start is the facilitator of any parent-child groups you may be attending. You could also talk with your child’s preschool or child care educator, your family doctor, or any local agencies that provide service to young children and their fami-lies such as the East Kootenay Infant Development Program, Paq’mi Nuq’yuk Aboriginal Early Years or the East Koote-nay Supported Child Develop-ment Program. Or visit www.mcf.gov.bc.ca/early_child-hood/index.htm for a list of programs and services avail-able for children birth to 5 years of age.

For more information on temperament check out “Tips on Temperament” at www.ze-rotothree.org/child-develop-ment/temperament-behavior/tips-temperament.html

Charlene Stropky is a Con-sultant with the Infant Develop-ment Program

This article was submitted by The Cranbrook Early Child-hood Development Committee. The committee meets the first Tuesday of each month from 1 to 3 p.m. at Cranbrook Family Connections (next to the Skate-park). New members are al-ways welcome. Visit www.ekids.ca for information about pro-grams. For more information about the committee, contact Theresa at [email protected]

Social play and interactionThe early years

TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2014

The good thing about volcanoes is that you know where they are. If you don’t want to get hurt, just stay away from

them. The bad thing about supervolcanoes is that you may know where they are, but there’s no getting away from them. They only blow up very rarely, but when they do, the whole world is affected. They can cover an entire continent with ash, and lower temperatures sharply worldwide for years.

“This is something that, as a species, we will eventually have to deal with. It will hap-pen in future,” said Dr Wim Malfait of ETH Zurich (the Swiss Federal institute of Technology) , lead author of a recent paper in “Nature Geo-science” that says supervolca-no eruptions don’t even need an earth-quake as a trigger. “You could compare it to an asteroid impact,” he says. “The risk at any given time is small, but when it happens the consequences will be catastrophic.”

I know you already have enough to worry about, what with climate change and asteroid strikes and the like, but I’m afraid there’s more.

Volcanoes and supervolcanoes both in-volve magma (molten rock deep under-ground) that breaks through to the surface, but in practice they are quite different. Vol-canoes gradually build themselves into mountains by repeated, relatively modest eruptions of lava. Supervolcanoes are a sin-gle massive explosion of magma rising to the surface over a huge area, and blasting at least a thousand cubic km. of ash into the atmosphere.

How massive? The largest recent volca-nic eruption was Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, which blew about ten cubic km. of ash and gas into the upper atmo-sphere in 1991. The result was a 0.4 degree

C drop in average global temperature for a year or so. But the eruption of the Yellow-stone supervolcano 640,000 years ago was a hundred times as big.

It covered the entire North American continent with ash – and just like an aster-oid strike, it threw massive amounts of dust and ash into the stratosphere, where it stayed for years, blocking out much of the sunlight. (It doesn’t rain in the stratosphere,

so the debris stays there for a long time.) As a re-sult the average global temperature fell by as much as 10 degrees C for a number of years.

It was temporary, but while it lasted there was a steep fall in the amount of

plant material growing on the planet, and a corresponding collapse in animal popula-tions as well. Not mass extinctions, so far as we can tell, and fairly soon the plant and animal species repopulated their former habitats, but it certainly spoiled the party for the equivalent of several human genera-tions.

Homo sapiens was not around 640,000 years ago, but people like us certainly were around when another supervolcano, Toba in northern Sumatra, blew about 73,000 years ago. The event has been tentatively linked with a “bottleneck” in human evolu-tion at that time in which, according to some genetic studies, the human popula-tion was squeezed down to only around 1,000 people.

This hypothesis has been challenged by a recent study of the sediments in Lake Ma-lawi by an Oxford University-led team. They did not find any layer in the sediments with much reduced vegetation, which you would expect to see if there were a long-lasting cooling of the climate. This is puzzling,

since Toba was the biggest supervolcanic blast in 2.5 million years: it boosted two to three times as much dust and ash into the air as the Yellowstone eruption.

But only a couple of years of severely di-minished sunlight would still cause cata-strophic population losses in both the plant and the animal kingdoms. Even a relatively short “volcanic winter” would be a huge catastrophe for human beings.

How many people would die if such a catastrophe happened now? It is unlikely that even half of the world’s 7 billion people would survive two or three years of severe hunger, and civilisation itself would take a terrible beating. Nor is there anything use-ful you can do to prepare for such a ca-tastrophe, unless you are able to stockpile two or three years’ worth of food for the en-tire world.

At the moment, our global food reserve will feed the population for only three or four months, so that is not likely to happen. If it does not, then we just have to hope that the calamity doesn’t happen — knowing that we probably will not have much warn-ing if it does.

What Dr Malfait’s team discovered is that the detonation of a supervolcano is entirely dependent on the temperature of the liquid rock in the underground cham-ber. As it gets hotter, it gets less dense than the solid rock around it. At this point, it will behave just like an air-filled balloon or foot-ball that is held underwater, trying to pop up to the surface.

Eventually, the magma forces its way to the surface over an area of hundreds of square kilometres, expands and explodes. On average, such an explosion only hap-pens once every hundred thousand years, but in practice it could happen at any time, with as little as a few weeks warning. Just thought you’d like to know. Sleep well.

Another thing to worry aboutSUPERVOLCANOES!

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The Kootenay Ice shored up their blue line last week, acquiring re-arguard Tyler King from the Spokane Chiefs in exchange for rookie for-ward Hudson Elynuik.

Since the deal, which went down last Tuesday, King has appeared in three games with Koote-nay, and seems to fit right in, playing top four minutes against the Ti-gers and the Broncos.

Kootenay is out a de-fenceman after Tanner Faith aggravated an inju-ry during the B.C. Divi-sion road trip in Decem-ber and will require sea-son-ending shoulder

surgery.Rookie defenceman

Troy Murray has steadily improved throughout the fall schedule, but the team was in need of someone with veteran experience, hence the deal for King, who ad-mitted that the trade came as a surprise.

“It was definitely a shocker, I wasn’t really expecting it, but it was a good opportunity for me to come here and I’m glad it got done,” said King.

Since the trade, he suited up for three games, notching an as-sist in his debut with the Ice on Thursday in Med-icine Hat against the Ti-gers.

Ice assistant coach Jay Henderson has taken notice of what the new blueliner brings to the table.

“He skates well, moves the puck well, he’s a great shot,” Hen-derson said. “Obviously he’s got to get familiar with our systems and a good week of practice will help with that, but I like the way he’s shown so far and he’s played some good minutes for

us.”Though the the Ice

and his former team in Spokane are in different conferences, the geo-graphical proximity en-sures five meetings be-tween the two clubs, three of which have al-ready happened.

“I knew the Ice were always a hard working team and I think they

play a little similar to how we did in Spokane, so I felt like I could fit in here pretty easily,” said King.

The 18-year-old de-fenceman is a former first round pick in the WHL bantam draft and is in his third year in the WHL. His time in Spo-kane under head coach Don Nachbauer has

helped season him into a reliable presence on the back end.

“I’m a hard working D-man, try to be good in the defensive zone and jump up in the rush every once in a while, try to get some offence going,” said King. “Just do whatever I can back there to keep the puck out of the net.”

King makes Ice home debutWESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE


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49ers 23 Packers 20

At Green Bay, Kaepernick threw for 227 yards and ran for another 98. Kaepernick escaped a blitz on third-and-8 and scrambled for an 11-yard gain to the 27 with 1:13 left. The 49ers (13-4) ran down the clock and the 15-year veteran, in his first season in San Francis-co, made the winner.

Mason Crosby’s 24-yard field goal tied it at 20 for the Packers (8-8-1) with 5:06 left.

San Francisco has won seven straight. Next up, the NFC South champion Panthers, who beat the 49ers 10-9 on Nov. 10 at San Fran-cisco.

“They got us the first time,” All-Pro lineback-er NaVorro Bowman said, “we need to get them this time.”

Chargers 27Bengals 10

At Cincinnati, San Diego, which has won five straight, barely got into the playoffs, need-ing an overtime victory against Kansas City’s subs last weekend. Now, the Chargers (10-7) head to AFC top-seeded Denver (13-3), where they won 27-20 last month - the Broncos’ only home loss this sea-son. The original AFL teams have never met in the playoffs.

“We talked all week about this being the fifth round,” quarterback Philip Rivers said, “so the sixth round will be in Denver next week. We know Denver is a great team ... we’ll be ready for the challenge. Go see if we can score one more point than they can.”

The Chargers also avenged their most re-cent loss, a 17-10 home defeat to Cincinnati, which finished 11-6 but is 0-5 in the post-season under coach Marvin Lewis.

Saints 26Eagles 24

At Philadelphia,

Shayne Graham gave his 10th team some-thing to celebrate with four field goals, includ-ing a 32-yarder on the final play to win. New Orleans had been 0-5 on the road in the post-season, but a strong running game, solid defence and the leadership of Drew Brees.

“As much as we hate hearing that talk, we kind of brought it on ourselves,” Brees said of questions about the Saints (12-5) winning on the road and in the cold - whether during the season or in the playoffs. “We lost our last three on the road.”

Thanks to Graham, who was signed 2 1/2 weeks ago when long-time kicker Garrett Hartley was released, they get a chance to start on playoff winning streak away from the Big Easy.

The Eagles (10-7) went from last to first in the NFC East under first-year coach Chip Kelly and have plenty to build around.

Colts 45Chiefs 44

At Indianapolis, the Colts (12-5) staged one of the NFL’s greatest comebacks. Andrew Luck, showing the touch and poise of, well, Peyton Manning in pre-vious years in Indy, threw three of his four touchdowns in the sec-ond half. Luck also scored on a fumble re-turn, and connected with a wide-open T.Y. Hilton on a 64-yard pass. Adam Vinatieri, who knows something about big post-season kicks, made the extra point for the winning edge.

Indy trailed 38-10 in the third quarter.

Kansas City (11-6), which began the season 9-0, will have a tough time putting this loss behind it.

“Any time you’re leading like that and then have them battle back and then take it and losing by a point is a tough pill to swallow,” Chiefs QB Alex Smith said.

NFL playoff race heats up after

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TRE VOR CR AWLEYSports Editor

After picking up Tyler King last week from Spokane, Kootenay Ice GM Jeff Chynoweth hinted that he may not be finished as the WHL trade deadline nears on Friday, Jan. 10th.

Chynoweth noted that the team was looking for a veteran defenceman, which materialized with the acquisi-tion of King, and possibly an older for-ward.

Kootenay still has a vacant 20-year-old spot, as Jagger Dirk and Zach McPhee are the only overagers cur-rently on the roster.

Since the King trade last week, other WHL teams have been making roster changes.

Saskatoon and Swift Current swung a big deal, as the Blades sent veteran Nathan Burns and a 7th round pick to the Broncos for Connor Sanvido, Wyatt

Sloboshan, a 2nd round pick (2014) and conditional 3rd round selection (2015).

Medicine Hat shipped Spencer Jen-sen to Moose Jaw in exchange for three draft picks, one of which was a condi-tional selection.

On Monday, the Warriors also sent their overage D-man Travis Brown to Victoria in exchange for Noah Gregor, a pair of 3rd round picks and a condi-tional selection.

“The prices are high, they’ve been high all year,” said Chynoweth, refer-ring to the Blades-Broncos trade in-volving Burns.

“The problem is that we don’t have many bullets left in our gun, so to speak, so we got to be very cautious not to give too much away—meaning you still build your team through the ban-tam draft and those bantam picks mean a lot to us.”

WHL trade deadline nears

“I knew the Ice were always a hard

working team and I think they play a

little similar to how we did in Spokane,

so I felt like I could fit in here pretty easily.”

Tyler King

Veteran QB McPherson signs on with StampedersC ANADIAN PRESSAdrian McPherson is

returning to the CFL.The veteran quarter-

back has signed with the Calgary Stampeders, ac-cording to a source. McPherson, 30, spent five seasons with the Montreal Alouettes (2008-’12), earning Grey Cup rings in ‘09 and 2010 with the club before being released to pursue other offers.

Instead of landing an-other CFL job, the six-

foot-three, 220-pound native of Bradenton, Fla., spent last season with the Tampa Bay Storm of the Arena Football League. McPherson ap-peared in 13 games, completing 238-of-385 passes (61.8 per cent) for 3,151 yards and 59 touch-downs with five intercep-tions.

McPherson also added 415 yards rushing on 91 carries with 31 TDs, all team highs. In 2004, McPherson was

the AFL’s top rookie with the Indiana Firebirds.

In Montreal, McPher-son served mostly as the backup behind Anthony Calvillo, completing 145-of-247 passes for 1,505 yards with 10 TDs and six interceptions during his time with the Alouettes.

He also rushed for 1,035 yards on 218 at-tempts, scoring 20 touch-downs.

On Sept. 11, 2010, McPherson started in place of an injured

Calvillo and guided Montreal to a 27-6 road win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. In that game, McPherson completed 21-of-37 passes for 238 yards and a touchdown and also ran for 121 yards.

The addition of McPherson fills a need for Calgary, which lost veteran starter Kevin Glenn to the expansion Ottawa Renegades last month. Glenn’s depar-

ture left the Stampeders with former starter Drew Tate and impressive youngster Bo Levi Mitch-ell under centre.

McPherson was se-lected in the fifth round, No. 152 overall, by the NFL’s New Orleans Saints in ‘05. In December ‘06, he launched a $20-mil-lion lawsuit against the Tennessee Titans after being run over by a golf cart driven by the club’s mascot during an exhibi-tion game.

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MIAMI - A punchless of-fence in the final two games kept the Miami Dolphins out of the post-season, and they’ll have a new play-caller in 2014.

Offensive co-ordinator Mike Sherman was fired Mon-day, the first change by the team since the holiday col-lapse. Coach Joe Philbin de-

fended Sherman the day after the season, but owner Stephen Ross was expected to demand some sort of shake-up follow-ing the dismal finish.

Sherman joined the Dol-phins when Philbin was hired two years ago, and the two have been close for more than 30 years. But this season Sher-man’s unit ranked 27th in the NFL in yards, allowed a fran-

chise-record 58 sacks and scored once in its final 24 pos-sessions.

The Dolphins (8-8) would have made the playoffs if they had won one of their final two games against the Bills and Jets. Instead, they were beaten by a combined score of 39-7.

Other changes in Philbin’s staff are possible, and offen-sive line coach Jim Turner’s

status remains in doubt. The line was the focus of a bullying scandal that mushroomed at midseason and left the Dol-phins without two starters, and the NFL has yet to release a report on its investigation into the case.

Philbin thanked Sherman for his contributions in a brief statement announcing the fir-ing.

Miami Dolphins � re o� ensive co-ordinator Mike Sherman

TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2014

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Tundra By Chad Carpenter

Garfield By Jim Davis

Hagar the Horrible By Dick Browne

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) You can’t deny a volatile element that runs through your day. Pres-sure builds because someone in authority makes heavy de-mands. A new beginning might be plausible, though there could be some awkward and/or hard moments. Tonight: Beam in more of what you want. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You might feel pressured and overwhelmed. A situation could become more out of control than you thought possible. Your sense of humor will come through, but perhaps a little too late. Express your true feelings. Tonight: Try to be unavailable. Cocoon, if need be. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You usually flex well with the unexpected. You might get an opportunity to test out that ability today. A friend could feel threatened by your devotion to someone else. Remind this per-son that your feelings for him or her are not affected by this.

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AAron orl AndoRevelstoke Times Review

Friends and family of Josh-ua Jeffs are increasingly con-cerned about his wellbeing after not hearing from him since December 19, when he ditched out of the stolen car he was driving at 12 Mile south of Revelstoke.

Revelstoke RCMP followed the young Manitoba man from Revelstoke starting at about 5:30 that morning, after police checked the plates of the Hyun-dai Sonata he was driving and found it was listed as stolen.

The car ended up at 12 Mile, where it became stuck at the end of the road at the river-side recreation area.

Police apprehended a fe-male occupant, but Jeffs evad-ed police. The RCMP set up a perimeter that morning from 6 a.m. to noon, but didn’t locate him.

On Jan. 2, RCMP officially

listed Jeffs, 23, as missing, after family members contacted po-lice with concerns. They said they haven’t heard anything from the young man since the incident.

Revelstoke RCMP spokes-person Staff-Sgt. Kurt Grabin-sky told the Times Review po-lice simply don’t know where

Jeffs is. “We have no substantial evidence to say he is any-where,” Grabinsky said.

His cell phone was found in the stolen car, and they haven’t been able to turn up any evi-dence he escaped the area and is doing fine somewhere else – such as transactions using his bank or credit card.

Grabinsky said two possibil-ities are likely: he evaded the roadblocks and search and left town, and is now laying low, “or he succumbed to the ele-ments.”

Staff-Sgt. Grabinsky said the RCMP decision to list Jeffs as missing (in addition to the war-rant for his arrest arising from the Dec. 19 incident) resulted from contact from the family in early January expressing con-cern.

Grabinsky defended police actions. He said the ‘chase’ to the area was a more of a ‘fol-low.’ He said an officer had ob-

served the pair prior to the in-cident, but that the search was impeded by a lack of co-opera-tion by the female who was ar-rested. Grabinsky said she didn’t co-operate with police for about 30 hours after her ar-rest.

Police searched for Jeffs on Dec. 19, but relatively low snow cover in the area made the search difficult. “There was very minimal snow in the area and footprints weren’t obvi-ous,” Grabinsky said.

Two days later, on Dec. 21, police launched a more ex-tensive search that involved Revelstoke Search & Rescue, an RCMP helicopter and an RCMP canine search team. Snow had fallen since then, and searchers turned up no signs of Jeffs, such as footprints.

Since then, RCMP have asked helicopter companies and area residents to be on the lookout.

Family concern for missing Joshua Jeffs, who fled Revelstoke RCMP into forest

Joshua Jeffs

diAnA MehtACanadian Press

TORONTO — Some braced for blizzards, others dealt with precari-ous flash freezes, and still more faced bone-chilling temperatures — and then there were those who en-dured power outages dating back to earlier bitter weather.

A mixed bag of nasty conditions led Environment Canada to issue warnings for vast swaths of the coun-try on Monday, when many headed back to work for the first time since the holiday break.

“It’s almost like the total meteo-rological lexicon of everything mis-erable in terms of winter is found somewhere in Canada,’’ said senior climatologist David Phillips.

The sheer amount of varying warnings was considered somewhat unusual even by the national weath-er agency that put them out.

Phillips listed some of the misery.“From wind chill to winter storm

warnings to flash freezes to freezing rain to heavy rain to strong winds; snow squalls also.’’

Southern Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba experienced some of the most bitter cold, where communities long-used to chilly conditions were lashed by frigid gusts which prompted a series of wind chill warnings.

“We’re seeing wind chills that are into the minus 50, which would freeze flesh in less than five min-utes,’’ said Phillips, who warned resi-dents to bundle up.

Meanwhile, communities in northern and southern Ontario were warned of flash freezes, wind chills and even snow squalls in some areas.

The latest blast of winter came just a week after a wicked ice storm left hundreds of thousands without

power in parts of Central and East-ern Canada.

Toronto and Windsor, Ont., — which were expecting wind chills from -35 C to -40 C into Tuesday — were among some communities which issued extreme cold weather alerts while urging those who were homeless to seek shelter.

It was a slightly different story in Quebec, where somewhat warmer temperatures meant Environment Canada issued rainfall and freezing rain warnings for southern parts of the province, although communities further north faced blizzard warn-ings.

Authorities in Ontario and Que-bec urged caution on icy roads and slushy sidewalks and warned motor-ists to take care in communities that were expecting blowing snow and whiteout conditions.

In Atlantic Canada, freezing rain and rainfall warnings were issued for much of New Brunswick, eastern Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and parts of New-foundland.

A mass of cold Arctic air, com-bined with a warmer weather sys-tem that had come up from the U.S., had led to much of the recent vari-ety of inclement conditions, said Philips.

Environment Canada warned, however, that the milder tempera-tures in the eastern part of the coun-try would be short lived.

“The cold polar arctic air will now flood the eastern part of the country and will almost freeze everything instantly,’’ he warned. “That’s why we have these flash freezes. It’s going to be a messy situation.’’

Some communities, including Toronto, Halifax, Montreal and Que-bec City, were expected to see a drastic drop in temperatures by Tuesday.

Much of country facing bitter cold, rain, wind or snow

C AnAdiAn PreSSQUESNEL, B.C. —

An SPCA animal shelter in northern British Co-lumbia is starting the new year without its yearly round of holiday donations after a week-end robbery.

Someone broke into the shelter in Quesnel, located more than 400 kilometres north of Van-couver, between Satur-day evening and Sunday morning, said manager Colby O’Flynn.

The cats and dogs at the shelter were unaf-fected, said O’Flynn.

O’Flynn said a staff member arrived for work on Sunday morn-ing and noticed a chill in the air. The worker quickly saw that a win-dow had been kicked in and the shelter’s offices had been trashed.

“They were able to kick the bars off a win-dow and ransacked the shelter, throwing ev-erything everywhere, digging around trying to find the money,’’ O’Flynn said in an in-terview.

The area of the shel-ter that houses the ani-mals is behind an alarmed door, which wasn’t opened, she said.

O’Flynn said she was

waiting for permission from the RCMP to enter the building to assess what had been stolen, but she said the cash registers were emptied and the donation boxes were gone.

The shelter could be out more than $1,000 — money that would have paid for veterinary pro-cedures, she said.

The shelter is asking for the public’s help — both to find the perpe-trator and to help re-place some of the dona-tions that were stolen.

“To lose $10 as a non-profit is devastat-ing, so even if we lost $1,000, it’s going to be very difficult for us,’’ said O’Flynn.

She said the shelter is reluctant to ask people who have already do-nated to give even more money.

“The fact that the money that was already donated was stolen is heartbreaking, because a lot of people who do-nate don’t have the extra funds to do it, but they do it out of the kindness of their heart,’’ she said.

“So to ask them to donate again is not something we want to do.’’

SPCA branch’s holiday donations targeted in

weekend robbery


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DETROIT — A Michigan barber is hoping to find his way into the record books with some quick work.

Bryan (B-Dogg) Price wants to set a Guinness World Records mark for completing the most male haircuts in an hour.

The Detroit Free Press re-ports (http://on.freep.com/1985hgE ) Price needs to complete 35 haircuts, but he says his personal goal is 40.

The 46-year-old from Oak Park is planning the record attempt April 6 at Michigan Barber School on Detroit’s west side, where he got his barber’s license in 1988.

Price plans to use two cordless clippers at the same time and move back and forth between the two chairs. The cuts will be recorded on video.

Ivan Zoot, who holds the record at 34 haircuts, says he wishes Price good luck in his attempt.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GLOUCESTER, Mass. — He wasn’t asked to play a few licks on the drums, but police in Gloucester quickly deter-mined that the homeless man they found at a city business

wasn’t who claimed to be.When officers responded

to the business Thursday to assist employees with the man, he claimed he was the drummer for the 1980s-era hard rock band Whitesnake.

The Gloucester Times re-ports that a quick check of records indicated that that was not true.

The man, who had no known address, had been asked to leave an apartment

building earlier in the night when he was found sleeping in the doorway.

The unnamed man was taken to a hospital for evalua-tion.

JOSHuA FREEDTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MINNEAPOLIS — Delta Air Lines is retiring its last DC-9s, the oldest passen-ger plane in the fleet of the big U.S. air-lines.

The final passenger flight was planned for Minneapolis to Atlanta on Monday evening.

McDonnell Douglas delivered the first DC-9s in 1965, and eventually built 976 of them. The plane was noteworthy at the time because it was small enough to fly to airports in smaller cities that had previously been served by propel-ler-driven planes. Its low-to-the-ground profile put its cargo door at about waist height, so ground crews at smaller air-ports could load it without special equipment.

The plane flew for Delta, Continental and several smaller regional airlines. The one slated to fly the final scheduled flight on Monday was built in 1978 and went to North Central Airlines. Its fate

after that mirrors the merger wave that rolled through the whole airline indus-try. A combination of North Central and other airlines formed Republic Airlines, which merged with Northwest Airlines in the 1980s. Delta bought Northwest in 2008.

Most airlines retired the DC-9s by the 1990s. But instead of retiring them, Northwest in 1995 refurbished their in-teriors to squeeze more flying out of them. Federal rules don’t limit how many years a plane can fly, only how many takeoffs and landings. As long as it stayed under those limits, the DC-9s could keep flying.

At one time the planes made up al-most one-third of Northwest’s fleet. As of Monday Delta was down to its last six. It’s keeping two planes as spares for a few more weeks.

The final flight prompted dozens of aviation enthusiasts to buy tickets, and they lined up at the window to watch the plane come in from LaGuardia airport in New York.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPARIS — France’s interior

minister says local officials are allowed to ban shows by a comic considered anti-Se-mitic who’s about to start a national tour.

Comic Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala is especially known for popularizing a hand ges-ture used by sports stars like Nicolas Anelka, among oth-ers, that Manuel Valls, the French minister, sees as an-ti-Semitic code.

Valls notified regional pre-fects on Monday that they,

along with mayors, can close down Dieudonne’s shows based on a potential risk to public order.

Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said there’s “no doubt” that Thursday’s show in the western city of Nantes, where he used to be mayor, would get the axe.

Valls says the racial and anti-Semitic remarks in Dieudonne’s show are legal infractions and “no longer belong to the artistic and cre-ative dimension.”

French will ban comic seen as anti-Semitic

Barber hopes to set record for most haircuts

Homeless man claims to be rock band drummer

Delta retires DC-9s with final flight by 35-year-old plane

SETH BOREnSTEInTHE ASSOCIATED

PRESS

WASHINGTON — Time travellers, if they really exist, seem to be keeping their adven-tures to themselves.

Researchers with perhaps a bit too much time on their hands

conducted an exten-sive Internet and social media search for evi-dence of time travellers going back in history and then bragging about it online.

And they came up empty.

No real life Dr. Who or Marty McFly from the movie “Back to the

Researchers don’t find evidence of time travelFuture” tweeting secrets a bit early.

Spurred by idle chat during Thursday poker games, an as-trophysicist and his students at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan, searched for men-tions of Pope Francis and Comet ISON before they popped into reality. Francis was elected pope last March and ISON was first detected in September 2012.

The idea: If someone men-tions a Pope Francis in a 2011 tweet, Facebook post or blog item, then they must have

come back from the future with special knowledge.

But no one posted any-thing prescient.

And last September, the researchers asked people to tweet “#Icanchangethepast2” — but do it before August, a month earlier. Again, no one did.

The disappointing results, rejected by three physics journals, will be presented Tuesday at the American As-tronomical Society confer-ence in Washington.

If someone went back in time and said something to

hint about the future, it would prove the concept of time travel, said astrophysicist Robert Nemiroff.

He said this was merely summer fun that cost nothing to do.

“This wasn’t a major re-search push,” Nemiroff said Monday at the astronomy meeting. “This was typing things into search engines. Billions of dollars are spent on time travel movies and books and stuff like that. This probably costs less than a dollar to check on it.”

Nemiroff said this isn’t his

normal field and he didn’t much believe in travelling backward in time before — and believes less in it now. “Unless I go back (in time) and publish lots of papers,” he joked.

Other scientists didn’t quite take it too seriously ei-ther.

Harvard University astron-omer Avi Loeb said in an email, “as anyone who uses online dating knows, the In-ternet is the last place to find the truth about the physical reality.”

PlanesPotters Photo

The 35-year-old DC-9 aircraft will be retired by Delta Air Lines. The air craft is the oldest pas-senger plane in the fleet of the large U.S. airlines.

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