Kimberley Daily Bulletin, January 14, 2013

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There will be more opportunity for trips to Cranbrook from Kimberley with the addi-tional 1100 hours per year granted by BC Transit, says Kimberley Manager of Planning Services Tory Pollock. But it would be incor-rect to call it a commuter service.

It is, rather, an extension to the Health Bus which already runs to Cranbrook Tues-

days and Thursdays, but with the City and BC Transit footing the cost of the additional days instead of Interior Health.

“It is not really a commuter service,” Pollock said. “It is two additional days of service to the current Health Connection Service.”

Each day will have three trips to Cranbrook. Which exact days will be chosen for the ex-panded service has not been entirely decided, though it will likely be Wednesday and Friday.

You still have to call and book the bus a day

ahead for pickup.With Kimberley’s senior population having

grown 15 per cent from 2006 to 2011, it is ex-pected this increased service will be a benefit.

The bus currently leaves Kimberley at 8:30 am, 11:00 and 2:15 pm and the Tamarack Mall at 10:05, 1:05 and 3:05 pm. If you have mobility difficulties, special handyDART service will be available. All customers must call 250-427-7400 at least 24 hours in advance to guaran-tee their seat.

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Groups like Centre 64 still accepting penny donations

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The circulation of the penny in Canada is almost at an end.

On February 4, 2013, the Royal Canadian Mint will stop dis-tributing pen-nies to finan-cial institu-tions.

The elimina-tion of the penny was part of the federal government’s 2012 budget, and although it was delayed for a few months, it’s still going ahead. The government expects to be able to save $11 million. It costs 1.6 cents to produce every penny.

When the government made the an-nouncement last winter, a few enterprising community groups — like the Centre 64 Ex-pansion Committee — asked people to give them their extra pennies.

Carol Fergus from Centre 64 says the pen-nies have added up to $300 so far, and they are still accepting more.

Each $50 weighs in at 34 pounds or 15.4 kg, so that’s about 204 pounds, 92.5 kg of pennies so far for renovations to the arts centre/the-atre.

“All the proceeds go to any renovations at the Centre,” Fergus said. “We are updating the theatre at the present time. Knowing the fu-ture expansion is years away, it is imperative that upgrades occur to accommodate the users and the patrons of the Centre. The resi-dents of Garden view Village started the pro-cess by collecting and rolling the first $150 worth.”

You can drop your pennies off at Centre 64 from Tuesday to Saturday 1-5 p.m.

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Photo courtesy the real Mckenzie PhotograPhy

The snow is deep at Kimberley alpine resort. If you’re a fan of powder skiing, now’s the time.

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big bucksAlmost $6000 has been dis-pursed to local groups.

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united church/ktunaxa nation

an ally foundthe United Church of Canada Kootenay Presbytery supports Ktunaxa fight to save their sacred Qat’muk land.

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There were honks and handshakes all around for a gathering of Idle No More protesters on Friday, January 11 outside of Kootenay Columbia MP David Wilks’s Cranbrook office. About 20 people showed up despite the cold to support the growing demonstrations across Canada that happened at the same time as Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with First Nations leaders in Ottawa after weeks of protests and blockades. See further coverage on Pages 1, 3 and 6.

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Interested candi-dates can apply until Jan. 24 online through the Wildfire Manage-ment Branch website: www.bcwildfire.ca/em-ployment

The job require-ments are listed on the website, including de-tails about the recruit-ment process, preferred qualifications and fit-ness requirements.

Successful appli-cants will be assigned to crews in various loca-tions throughout the province and typically will start in May and work until the end of August.

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Cpl. Chris Ne welFor the Bulletin

On Sept 15, 2012, the Kimberley RCMP and Speedwatch held their annual charity golf tournament at Kimberley Golf Course. Over $5800 was raised thanks to participants and businesses in the community

In December the funds were distributed to a number of sports organizations in Kim-berly. Seven local clubs received between $400 and $900. These includ-ed, Kimberley Minor Hockey, to allow per-sons to have better ac-cess to their programs, McKim School, to facili-tate a grade 4 and 5 swim program, North-star Figure Skaters, to assist in purchasing a theatrical curtain, Kim-berly Minor Baseball and Kimberley Soccer

Association, to pur-chase a line marker for the fields. Kimberley Jackrabbit Ski program, to purchase training equipment, Kimberley Seahorse Swim pro-gram, to assist with the purchase of training equipment.

A grant of $1250 was given to the Kimberley Ambulance Society’s Memorial Education Fund. This is in recog-nition of the two ambu-lance attendants, Kim Weitzel and Shawn Cur-rier who tragically lost their lives in 2006 while on duty. The funds will go towards paramedics who wish to further their career in the med-ical field.

In addition a public swim session was pur-chased to promote physical fitness and family fun in the com-munity.

Kimberley RCMP/

Speedwatch gives out

almost $6000

The Kimberley RCMP/Speedwatch Golf Tournament had another successful year, allowing them to dispurse almost $6,000 to community groups. Above are, Back Row L to R Cpl. Todd Preston (RCMP), Frank Ackerman (Jackrabbits Ski program), Dave Bird (baseball), Andy Gray (Soccer), Donna Newel ( Northstar Figure Skating) Front row, Nancy Ricketts, Amber Pasula (Kimberley Ambulance Society Memorial Education Fund), Sharon Gendall (Speedwatch Coordinator) Viveka Johnson (McKim School).

The tournament saw a record number of golf-ers (110) this year. But this endeavor would not have been possible with-out the generous sup-port of the community business. Thank you!

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At 3:20 am, Jan 11, police were called to the Regalane Bowling in Kimberley after an alert resident heard a crashing sound. Upon atten-dance police located and arrested a 23 year old male from Cranbrook.

The witness heard a crash and called police, she was able to update police and direct them to the subject. He was caught inside the business,

but at another door. Damage to the doors was over $700

but nothing was taken thanks to the quick action from the caller. The bowl-ing alley is located on Archibald Street in Kimberley. The subject has been released and will attend court in March.

Police appreciate the efforts of citi-zens who call when they observe sus-picious activity.

Subject in arrested after breaking into the bowling alley

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KIMBERLEY & DISTRICTCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Call forApplications

The 1980 Kimberley Winter Games and the 2008 Kimberley/Cranbrook BC Winter Games continue to leave a legacy of endowment funds to be given out to amateur sporting organizations.

The KDCF is once again inviting sports organizations to apply for grants that will help develop amateur sport in the community. This invitation is open to any and all organizations in Kimberley. Preference will be given to organizations that will use the funds to develop the skills and knowledge of coaches, referees, volunteers, or athletes; or to purchase sports equipment. Applicants do not need to be a registered charity, but will be required to supply financial statements and digital photographs.

For more information and to download an application, please visit www.kimberleyfoundation.ca; or contact Desiree McKay at [email protected]. Grant application forms are also available for pickup at Kimberley City Hall, 340 Spokane Street.

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North Star Skating Club’s Starskater’s were off to a great start to the 2012-13 skating season due to the tremendous support from various funding sources that enabled them to renovate and redeco-rate their dressing room at the Civic Centre. The dressing room had become very outdated and was in need of new flooring, benches and paint. The new dressing was made possible due to financial support from Mark Creek Lions Club, Teck Coal, Kootenay Savings Credit Union and The Kimberley Elks Club. The club would also like the thank the College of the Rockies, Welding and Carpentry Departments that manufactured the brackets, benches and shelves. Tyee Log Homes supplied the wood for the shelves and benches and shelves. Rich Wilson volunteered his personal time to do all the renovations which meant that 100% of the donations received went directly to purchasing the necessary supplies, flooring and benches. The end result has been so appreciated by NSSC Starskaters. They have really enjoyed their new dressing room this year and the skaters are very thankful for the community support they received in making this renovation project happen.

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Church supports Ktunaxa claim

of Qat’muk spiritual lands

AnnAlee Gr AntTownsman Staff

On November 22, 2012, representatives from the United Church of Canada Kootenay Presbytery met with Ktunaxa Nation elders to reaffirm their apolo-gy and throw their sup-port behind the First Nation’s battle to save their sacred land.

The Nation has been fighting to save the Jumbo Glacier area, which they call Qat’muk, from devel-opment. In November they launched an appli-cation for judicial re-view of the master de-velopment agreement which gave Jumbo Gla-cier Resorts Ltd. the go ahead to construct a year-round ski resort in March. That agreement between the proponent and the provincial gov-ernment was signed in March. On November 20 the area was granted Mountain Resort Mu-nicipality status.

The United Church offered an apology for the harm done to First Nations children and their families in 1986 – 22 years before the Ca-nadian federal govern-ment offered their own for the federally-funded residential school pro-gram.

Frank Lewis, minis-ter for Cranbrook’s United Church, attend-ed the November 22 meeting between el-ders and church reps, and said the apology was the right way to start off the meeting which took place at the St. Eugene Golf Resort and Casino.

While the St. Eugene Mission residential school was run by the Roman Catholic Church, not the United Church, Lewis said the United Church did have involvement in other residential schools in Canada.

“The Christian churches – most de-nominations – were in-volved with residential schools, funded by fed-

eral government, to as-similate First Nations people into European culture,” Lewis said. “I believe that the inten-tions were good – at the time — but since then we have learned of the harm that it caused.”

The November meeting started out with Kootenay Presby-tery chair, Reverend Keith Simmonds, reaf-firming the apology and reading out a letter of support to be included in the Ktunaxa’s judicial review application that was submitted on No-vember 30. About 30 people attended the meeting, including Kimberley United Church minister Chris-tine Dudley.

“We thought it was important to clearly lay out the background to our statement of sup-port,” Simmonds said in a release from the Koo-tenay Presbytery. “Our history includes a dis-respect for, and dis-counting of, First Na-tions spirituality. We tried to eradicate an approach to the Creator we now recognize as not only valid, but a most helpful addition to our own understand-ing.”

Lewis said it was im-portant for the church to support the First Na-tion, because they un-derstand how import-ant spiritual lands can be to a religion.

“The focus is totally on the sacredness of the land,” Lewis, who joined the Cranbrook United Church on July 1, 2012 after moving from Victoria, said. “We as Protestants know of places within places where it’s so sacred that it needs to be held up and protected.”

Lewis cites sacred areas that are the focus of religious pilgrimages such as the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem for those of the Jewish faith.

“That’s our focus – is supporting their tradi-tion, what the Ktunaxa believe is a sacred place for them, and they’re our brothers and sis-ters,” he said.

Simmonds said now was the right time to go public with the United Church’s letter because

of the Idle No More pro-tests happening across Canada.

The United Church’s participation in the ju-dicial review is strictly spiritual, Lewis said. They have no interest in the ongoing political and economic debate surrounding the Jumbo Glacier Mountain Re-sort Municipality.

The United Church came out in 1986 to apologize to the First Nations involved in res-idential schools, well before Prime Minister Stephen Harper offered one on behalf of the federal government just four years ago. Lewis said the United Church believes in social jus-tice, based on the teachings of Jesus Christ. It was that belief which lead them to look into the damage done by residential schools.

“It is with that heart that we investigated what happened, and we were wrong,” Lewis said. But the church did something else to recti-fy the situation – they opened up a victim support fund. “Not only did we use words to apologize, but the Unit-ed Church set up a fund that was used for heal-ing purposes for the First Nations peoples.”

Lewis said he appre-ciates being welcomed onto Ktunaxa Lands and said their contribu-tion to the region needs to be celebrated.

Beyond the letter of support, Lewis and re-cently retired Kimber-ley United Church min-ister Barbara Langdon participated in the Qat’muk rally on No-vember 30, just days after the reaffirmed apology and handing over the letter of sup-port. Lewis said it was a wonderful experience.

“We have to cele-brate all who were there in support,” he said.

What was even more incredible about the march, according to Lewis, was that Canadi-ans joined together with First Nations for a common cause.

“It was people sup-porting First Nations,” he said. “It was great, it was bigger than I thought it would be.”

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P U B L I C H E A R I NG N O T I C EPublic Notice is hereby given that the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the City of Cranbrook proposes to adopt “City of Cranbrook Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 3762, 2013”.

The proposed amendment will change several sections of the “City of Cranbrook Zoning Bylaw No. 3737, 2012”. The purpose of the amendment is to clarify or de� ne permissible uses within applicable zones, update de� nitions, and revise or add a number of general zoning regulations.

It is proposed to add “pre-school” to the Group Day Care de� nition in order to group similar uses and clarify the potential locations where a “pre-school” use may occur.

New provisions are added to Part 4 General Regulations requiring the consolidation of parcels where two or more parcels are required to accommodate a development. In addition, a provision is added to Part 4 General Regulations enabling the use of up to six shipping containers or cargo containers for storage purposes in the M-3 - Heavy Industrial and Transportation Zone and the P-3 - Public Utility Zone only.

Minor typographical errors (number or zone references) are corrected within the C-1 - Community Commercial Zone and the C-3 - Neighbourhood Commercial Zone.

“Gasoline service station and gas bar” are added to the C-2 - Highway Commercial Zone as permissible uses to clarify and re� ect those uses within the C-2 zone.

“City of Cranbrook Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 3762, 2013” may be inspected between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays, up until January 21, 2012, inclusive, as posted on the bulletin board in the foyer at City Hall or in the of� ce of the Municipal Clerk.

The Public Hearing will commence in the City Hall Council Chamber, 40 – 10th Avenue South at 6:00 p.m. on January 21, 2013.

All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw Amendment may submit written presentations to the City of Cranbrook prior to the date of the Hearing and they may also submit written and/or verbal presentations at the Hearing, thereby allowing all persons an opportunity to be heard on this matter.

SUBMISSIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AFTER THE PUBLIC HEARING.

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ANNALEE GR ANTTownsman Staff

On December 3, 2012, School District 5 received a startling doc-ument from the Minis-try of Education, saying they will need to find three per cent savings over two years in their budget to cover salary increases for support staff.

The letter was sent from Minister Don McRae, stating that under the Co-operative Gains Mandate, public sector employers were able to negotiate mod-est wage increases so long as the savings could be found within the existing budget. Costs must not be passed on to the public and service delivery lev-els must be maintained.

“There’s no way in the world that we can save three per cent. We’re scrambling,” said Frank Lento, SD5 board chair.

Lento said the De-cember 3 letter was the first they’d heard of the need to find savings in a budget that was com-pleted back in June of 2012.

“There was no con-sultation whatsoever,” he said. “It was a Merry Christmas on Decem-ber the third.”

The letter was fol-

lowed up by a confer-ence call with school boards on December 11.

The letter, signed by Minister of Education Don McRae, went out to all school districts in the province.

Lento said the board simply can’t amend a budget that was set in stone seven months ago, and even if they could, he doesn’t know where they’d find the savings. They will begin serious negotiations on their next budget in February of this year.

“It’s like asking our Parent Advisory Council to do pizza and hotdog fundraisers to fund our support staff,” he said.

Lento explained that support staff is the en-tire staff beyond admin-istration: teachers under the B.C. Teach-er’s Federation (BCTF) and CUPE staff.

“We’ve been cut to the bone for the past decade looking for funds,” he said.

But the response from school districts across the province has been overwhelming, and Lento is encour-aged by the level of sup-port for pushing back.

“It was frustrating to a point, but it was heart-warming to see the en-tire province react in the same manner,” he said.

B.C. School Trustees Association (BCSTA) president Michael McE-voy sent a strongly worded letter to McRae expressing the concerns held by trustees across the province.

“The ministry failed to engage BCSTA and our member boards prior to taking this ap-proach,” McEvoy wrote. “With a recently signed co-governance protocol agreement in place, we expect to be consulted about decisions that have significant ramifi-cations.”

Lento said SD5 has had to tighten its belt every year as the cost of education rises, and there has been no in-crease in funding from the province to cover those costs.

“We had a very, very difficult time balancing the budget last year.

We’ve been cutting ex-penses for years due to real-dollar funding re-ductions. Everything goes up: heat, light, ve-hicle fuel, and so on. But government has not in-creased school funding to match these increas-ing costs,” Lento said. “And now they are set-tling contracts with mo-nopoly money. That’s not the way you run a business. It’s not the way you support a qual-ity education system for our kids.”

McEvoy echoed that in his letter, and stressed that having to find three per cent savings will mean running a deficit in coming years.

“Boards of education have been cutting ex-penses for years due to real-dollar funding re-ductions; there are no operational savings left,” he wrote. “Many boards now face the prospect of significant deficits in the next fiscal year and any savings to be had in the next six months would sensibly be used to off-set those impending deficits.”

Lento does not deny that the hard working staff at SD5 are deserv-ing of wage increases, but the money just sim-ply isn’t available.

“We support fair wage increases for all staff but to ask us now to

Budget cut orders push School District No. 5 to the brink C AROLYN GR ANT

The School District to the

North (Rocky Mountain Dis-trict No. 6) is taking a more cautious approach to the issue.

“The first thing to clarify is that Support Staff Bargaining in the education sector in BC is delegated,” said District Super-intendent, Paul Carrier. “The negotiations are a local, not a provincial matter, although typically wage increases have been funded by Government and/or Collective Agreement tradeoffs. Secondly, in keeping with the Cooperative Gains Mandate, the Minister asked Boards whether they could find 1.5 per cent savings within the current year’s budget, and that 1.5 per cent and a further 1.5 per cent in year two, to put to-wards a wage increase for sup-port staff. Because this is a sup-port staff bargaining item, our Board considered this matter in-camera, and is preparing a response to the Minister, as re-quested. It would not be appro-priate for us to comment fur-ther at this time.”

SD6; no comment

go back to last year’s budget and fiddle with our books is beyond belief,” he said.

Lento believes the ministry needs to find the money elsewhere.

“If they really want funds, we’ll pay them in Chamber of Commerce dollars,” he said.

McEvoy said savings cannot be found within existing school board budgets with-out impacting the education of students.

“The simple truth is that any further ‘savings’ will cause additional negative im-pact on direct service to students and facil-ities,” he said. “Moreover, I note that previ-ous provincially negotiated contracts have been supported by budget increases from the ministry, not paid directly from existing budgets that are already strained.”

McEvoy finished his letter by saying the deadline does not allow school boards enough time to look at their existing budg-ets and attempt to find the three per cent.

“I would observe that the timeline out-lined with respect to responding to the ministry’s letter does not respect a process of due diligence required for such a re-quest.”

“It’s like asking our Parent

Advisory Council to do pizza and

hotdog fundraisers to

fund our support staff.

Frank Lento

From Page 3

Instead of choosing to have John Doyle stay on as Auditor General, the government has taken this opportunity to get rid of him.

John Doyle has pro-vided very effective and determined oversight of government. The Audi-tor General is responsi-ble for conducting inde-pendent audits and ad-vising on how well gov-ernment is managing its responsibilities and re-sources.

And in the course of doing his job, John Doyle has exposed a re-cord of incompetence and deceit. Here are just a few examples.

The Auditor General has reported on the state of British Colum-bia’s forest lands declar-ing that based on his assessment the BC Lib-

eral government failed to halt the drop in tim-ber supply and the loss of species diversity.

The Auditor General has reported on the re-cord of BC’s Environ-mental Assessment Of-fice stating that based on his investigation it is clear that the office is not properly monitor-ing the compliance with mitigation standards re-quired in environmen-tal assessment certifi-cates.

The Auditor General has reported on the ex-cessive use of deferral accounts at BC Hydro which, according to Doyle, create an illusion of profitability where there is none.

But instead of ad-dressing these short-falls, the BC Liberals first tried to discredit John Doyle. And now they’ve taken the final step: they’ve gotten rid of him.

As a caucus, the Op-position has full confi-dence in John Doyle and we want to see him continue his work. If you believe that firing an effective critic of gov-ernment is the wrong thing to do, I would en-courage you to send a message to the Premier at [email protected].

Auditor General critical to protecting public interest

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MICHAEL DEN TANDTPostmedia News

The fractious, chaotic parlay be-tween aboriginal leaders and the government of Canada looks, at first blush, to have been another in a long string of failures on this

file. Anyone who watched events unfold in Ottawa Friday could be forgiven for con-cluding this cake is baked, or unbaked, if for no other reason than that far too many ab-original “leaders” can’t take yes for an an-swer.

At times it was like a Seinfeld episode, writ large: All the vanity, self-delusion and foolishness of the human condition on cruel display. Manitoba chiefs, one mo-ment angrily blocking access to Stephen Harper’s offices in the Langevin Block, the next angrily pounding on the door to be allowed in, apparently oblivious to the fact that they’d already been invited, which was the whole point of the exercise. Madness.

And yet, there was method to it - not just the businesslike, nuts-and-bolts con-tingent of 20-plus chiefs from a majority of provinces who eventually talked turkey with the prime minister, the Indian Affairs minister and various staffers, but also the bellowing, drumming, chanting, weeping, speechifying, sloganeering and chest-beat-ing in the streets.

For what better way to force the govern-ment’s attention to the rational voices in the aboriginal leadership - including Na-tional Chief Shawn Atleo and Quebec Cree Grand Chief Matthew Coon-Come - than to hold the conversation against a back-drop of general nuttiness? If ever the Harp-er government needed an incentive to give Atleo tangible wins, in order to bolster his

position vis-a-vis the radicals nipping at his heels, Friday’s spectacle provided it.

The irony is that, possibly for the first time in the past 150 years, the government of Canada really requires no such incen-tive. It was Jim Prentice, a former Indian Affairs, Industry and Environment minis-ter and one of the ablest administrators to have served in Harper’s cabinet, who warned last fall that Western resource de-velopment, in particular pipeline con-struction, would grind to a halt unless ab-originals were brought onside.

That’s because there is a “duty to con-sult,” enshrined in law, confirmed by Su-preme Court rulings, that requires the gov-ernment of Canada to formally consult with aboriginals on resource develop-ments, not only on or near reserves, but within the scope of their traditional territo-ries - in other words, practically every-where. ‚

This means that Canada’s 600-odd ab-original bands hold a de facto veto on much of the Harper government’s vaunted $650 billion in pending resource develop-ment and extraction. Never mind blocking the roads: The courts got there first.

Resource development forms the core of the Harper government’s economic and political strategy. Indeed, in their first year of majority power the Conservatives re-vealed an almost monomaniacal obses-sion with easing resource extraction for purposes of bolstering future economic growth.

So the chess board looks as follows, from the government’s point of view: A tiny, dispossessed and legitimately unhap-py minority of the population - the fewer than 500,000 aboriginal Canadians who

live on reserves, which tend to be remote, northern and western, where the richest resource bodies lie - hold the power, de-pending on how they make their next moves, to indefinitely stonewall the eco-nomic aspirations of the majority of 34 million.

That’s setting aside the spectre of insur-gent actions against remote resource infra-structure, in the event the aboriginal pop-ulation is further radicalized, and the only slightly less alarming prospect of block-ades on the Trans-Canada highway, which could devolve into another Oka crisis. Such scenarios lie just around the corner, should this go bad. This explains why Ste-phen Harper, who has in the past had a yen for striking the jugular when opposed, has not done so this time. Instead he has of-fered one concession after another, to his credit.

But therein lies the great emerging risk: Not that the Conservatives will be intransi-gent, but that they will lose their rational interlocutors on the aboriginal side. If Atleo, Coon-Come and their supporters are swept aside by hotheads; or if threats to block major transportation corridors are borne out, events could soon spiral out of control - with aboriginal Canadians the ultimate losers. For no amount of clear-eyed goodwill in government, or elsewhere for that matter, will hold in the face of a paralyzed Highway 401. The popular back-lash would be fierce, and that would dic-tate reactionary political choices.

In other words, appearances aside, Fri-day was no failure. It was a difficult but vital first step. Get used to hearing about such partial victories. The search for solu-tions is real - and it is just beginning.

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The most frustrating part of cov-ering the Lebanese civil war (1975-90) was that after a while there was nothing left to say. Syria is starting to feel just the

same. It’s horrible, but atrocities are a daily

event in all civil wars. It’s not going to stop any time soon, but you can only say that so many times before people get bored and move on. Except for the people who actu-ally live near Syria’s borders, the audience for “news” about Syria has already moved on.

Consider, for example, last week’s ex-haustive study by the United Nations Human Rights Commission concluding that 60,000 Syrians have been killed in the civil war since March, 2011.

That’s considerably higher than the previous estimates of deaths in the war, which were running around 40,000, and the UNHRC hoped that this new number would finally galvanise the rest of the world into action, but it changed nothing.

The UNHRC’s interns worked hard at the job, tabulating and cross-referencing the names of the dead, but it didn’t have the desired effect. It never does: all num-bers bigger than a couple of dozen just translate as “many” in the average person’s imagination.

Last month’s “news” was that the Rus-sians were on the brink of abandoning their Syrian ally, President Bashar al-As-sad, which would surely bring about his rapid downfall.

“One must look the facts in the face,” said Mikhail Bogdanov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister and Middle Eastern envoy. “Unfortunately, the victory of the Syrian opposition cannot be ruled out.”

The world’s media, desperate for a dif-ferent angle on the story, tried to build a new narrative on that: the Russians will stop defending the Syrian regime, and the United Nations Security Council, no lon-ger paralysed by a Russian veto, will autho-

rise foreign intervention, and foreign troops (whose? don’t ask!) will go in and stop the fighting.

However, Bogdanov did not actually say that a rebel victory was desirable. On the con-trary, he said that it would not happen for a long time, if ever, and that such a victory would ruin Syria.

Then the spokesman of the Russian foreign ministry, Alex-ander Lukashevich, an-nounced that the media had simply mis-understood Bogdanov: “We have not changed our position, and we will not change it.”

Nobody else is going to change their position either, including all those Western governments that have no intention what-ever of committing their troops to the Syri-an civil war, but use the Russian veto as an excuse for their inaction.

You can’t blame them: if they sent their armies into that meat-grinder, some of their young soldiers would die. Maybe quite a lot of them.

And so to this week’s piece of theatre: a widely touted speech in Damascus in which President al-Assad would propose a way to end the conflict peacefully.

He did no such thing, of course, instead declaring his eternal refusal to negotiate with the “terrorists” who are fighting his army. He will only talk to the “puppet-mas-ters” (an unholy alliance, he claims, be-tween Israel, Western governments and al-Qaeda), not to the puppets.

Well, what did you expect? He and his Alawite sect are convinced that they must go on ruling Syria or face destruction.

He’s not actually losing the war, either. Syrians are deeply divided by sect and eth-nicity and class, and enough of those groups are on Assad’s side that he can probably hold out for a very long time.

By the time he finally loses (or wins),

perhaps years from now, Syria will indeed be ruined.

So why doesn’t everybody else “do something about it”? Because what “everybody else” really means is “somebody else, but not me.”

No government is going to order its soldiers to risk their lives in a military intervention abroad unless it has reason-able confidence that their sac-rifice will not be futile. That assurance is simply not avail-

able to governments that might contem-plate intervention in Syria.

It’s a quarter-century since the first dic-tatorial regimes were overthrown by non-violent revolutions, and the remain-ing ones have all had time to study the phenomenon.

They have unanimously and quite cor-rectly concluded that their best chance of survival is to push the protesters into vio-lence. In a civil war, everybody is in the wrong, and the side with the greatest ability to inflict violence (the regime) may win.

Some regimes, like the Communists in eastern Europe or the apartheid regime in South Africa, decided that they would not impose a civil war on the country even if the alternative was losing power.

Others, like the Egyptian regime two years ago, could not trust the army to fight a civil war on their behalf.

But the senior commanders of the Syri-an army are almost all Alawites, and they were actually willing to fight a civil war rather than surrender power.

Now they have their war, and it will go on for a long time. By the end, there may not even be a unified Syrian state any more. And no outside force is going to stop it.

Gwynne Dyer is a London-based inde-pendent journalist.

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Letters to the editorWhy i love Kimberley

As I put away Christmas decorations and weaned of chocolate I reflected on the holiday season of 2012. Family and friends came and went, snow stayed fluffy and I had the opportunity to witness the kind Kimberley community.

On December 26 Kimberley hosted a free community dinner at Centennial Hall. While this event was not a first, it was a return of a gathering that had recently lost its core funding. Last year there was no dinner. This year we had an evening of great food, conversation and music.

Thanks to the staff at Caldwell Agen-cies who saw the value of the Community Christmas dinner. With three weeks until dinnertime, they went into action.

Support came from: Anita and Merv Haney, Axis, Alison Walker family, Des McKay, Driscoll family and the Ta Ta Creek boys, East Kootenay Addiction Ser-vices Society, Hospital Auxiliary, Husky food, Joanne Mather, Ken Jonsson, City of Kimberley, Mark Creek Market, Rotary, Sullivan Pub and many other individuals.

A hot turkey and ham dinner was cre-ated, served as well as delivered to those

who could not get to the hall. There was music by the Ta Ta Creek boys and a spon-taneous choir sang while we affirmed, this is a great place to be.

This community event started with the heartfelt generous intentions of a few and grew with all whom shared the great night. There are now plans to have more community meals. That’s why I love Kim-berley.

Alison KoKimberley

Jumbo debateIt’s nice to see the rookie NDP candi-

date dip her toe into the political waters with her letter “Jumbo, here and now.”

I can certainly understand why she would want to take the focus off the re-cord of the NDP when they were govern-ment, but she fails absolutely to deal with the fabrication told by her colleague from Nelson, NDP MLA Mungall. Mungall stood in front of the people of Cranbrook at Rotary Park, with rookie candidate Blis-sett beside her, and said with a straight face, the NDP have opposed the project

for 20 years. Bill Bennett’s obvious point in proving that this statement is false, is that the NDP cannot be trusted. Ms. Blis-sett is unable to provide a defense to this accurate criticism by Bennett, so she skips right over it and insists that we should forget about the past.

I for one will not forget what the NDP did to the East Kootenay when they were in government: high taxes, lower take home pay and an exodus of people and businesses to Alberta.

And by the way, the BC Liberal govern-ment voluntarily chose to have a referen-dum on the HST because they knew and admitted they blew the implementation. They then accepted the will of the people in the referendum and are rolling back the HST on April 1. To suggest that the decision to hold a referendum and then follow the will of the people, is somehow against “the will of the people”, is a very strange position for the rookie candidate to take. She may want to question the spin doctors at the coast who perhaps wrote her letter.

Doug WilliamsonCranbrook

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MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2013

TRE VOR CR AWLEYSports Editor

Nothing good lasts forever as things went full circle for the Koote-nay Ice.

The Cran-brook-based WHL club had their win streak ex-tended to seven games with a win over the Medicine Hat Tigers on Friday, but their good luck ended right back where it started with a road loss against the Spokane Chiefs on Sat-urday.

After the fallout from the trade deadline set-tled, Kootenay also named Joey Leach as the new captain, taking the mantle from his pre-decessor, Drew Czer-wonka, who retired from Ice at the begin-ning of the season.

After the 3 p.m. trade deadline, general man-ager Jeff Chynoweth also picked up Landon Peel, a 18-year-old de-fenceman who played 19 games with the Regi-na Pats last season and spent this year in the MJHL.

The Ice now play 19 of their remaining 29

scheduled games on the road as they begin to push for a playoff spot, lagging eight points be-hind the Tigers, who oc-cupy eighth place.

It was a shootout at the OK Corral on Friday at Western Financial Place, as Sam Reinhart and Brock Montgomery each posted a hat trick to lead the Ice to a 7-5 victory over the Tigers.

“Once in a while you gotta win 7-5 in this league, especially against that team,” said Ice head coach Ryan McGill. “They score a lot of goals and you know what, it was a good test for us, we knew that they would come and we knew that after the first period, even when we were up 3-1, that there was still a lot of hockey to play.

“They got a couple breaks on a couple goals that went off of us, but at the same time, they played hard and it was a good, good test for us.”

Kootenay ended the first frame with a 3-1 lead, but lost it in the second period as the Ti-gers caught up and briefly pulled ahead, be-fore the Ice caught up and regained a one-goal lead at 5-4.

Though Medicine Hat tied it up in the third, Montgomery broke it to complete his hat trick, and Reinhart posted the empty netter to complete his trio of goals.

Reinhart got things going less than two min-

utes into the game, off a seemingly inno-cent-looking shot that snuck by Tigers tender Cam Lanigan on the far side.

Luke Philp doubled the lead ten minutes later, getting one hand on a shot from Austin Vetterl that was enough to lift the puck over Lan-igan’s pad.

Reinhart got his sec-ond of the game by cap-italizing on a rebound from a point shot by Leach just over a minute after Philp’s marker.

However, the Tigers responded by the end of the frame, when Logan McVeigh centred the puck into the slot that went off Tanner Muth’s skate and into the net.

Boston Leier scored on a three-on-one rush

into the zone in the sec-ond period to bring the Tigers within a goal. Former Ice player Elgin Pearce then caught fire and notched a quick pair to put Medicine Hat in the lead 4-3.

Ice goaltender Mack-enzie Skapski was then replaced by Wyatt Hof-lin, who went on to win his first career WHL game.

“We had a great start, and that was huge, but the only negative I think we can take away from the game, would be that we let Slapper [Skapski] dry a little bit,” said Montgomery. “We hung him out to dry a little bit, I think. He got pulled and I don’t think that was his fault; I think the onus on that one is on the players, that’s on all

of us. “He’s been playing

great lately, stopping lots of pucks, made some huge saves before that.”

Montgomery even-tually got his first goal of the game by tipping a shot from Leach to tie things back up again.

Kootenay’s overage forward followed up with another goal on an odd-man rush, beating Lanigan after Levi Cable fed him a cross-ice pass.

Kootenay went into the third leading 5-4 but the Tigers tied it up again when they got an-other goal that went off a Kootenay defence-man’s skate and deflect-ed into the net.

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Joey Leach has been named captain of the Kootenay Ice last Friday after the trade deadline passed the evening be-fore, picking up the role for the remainder of the season.

Leach, who has worn an alternate mantle for most of the season, picks up from former captain Drew Czerwonka, who held the responsibility before his premature re-tirement in October.

Jagger Dirk, a 19-year-

old defenceman, will take up Leach’s alternate role to lead alongside Brock Montgomery and Sam Reinhart, who wear the other letters.

“Leadership is im-portant on any team and it comes from within,” said Ice general manager Jeff Chynoweth. “When you have a young team, it is even more import-ant to have players that know what it takes to win and develop that win-ning culture.

“All four players wear-ing letters were a part of

our 2011 championship team and understand the standard of excel-lence we strive to ac-complish.”

Leach, for his part, is happy to fill the role, as he’s had three captains

to learn from over his ca-reer with the Ice.

“You got to be a lead-er on and off the ice,” said Leach. “They’ve [management] trusted me with that. I’ve watched three great cap-tains in Czerwonka, Mc-Nabb and Sylvester be-fore me, so I’ve had a few while I’ve been here and they’ve showed me the way to be a positive lead-er.”

Ice head coach Ryan McGill notes that show-ing up everyday to work hard in practice and

games are Leach’s big-gest qualities.

“Sometimes, it’s not always pretty, but his heart and mind are in the right place and when you have a guy who leads by example like that, that’s all we want,” said McGill.

“We don’t need any-body to stand up in the middle of the dressing room with speeches, we just want everybody to fall in line with the work ethic and intelligent play, and that’s what he does.”

Ice give captaincy to veteran defenceman

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Nick Schmidt and Taylor Verboom come up big for the Avalanche on a block on Saturday.

“They got a couple breaks on a couple goals off us, but at

the same time, they played hard, so it was a good, good

test for us.”Ryan McGill


It was a mixed week-end of results for the Ava-lanche, as the men split their set with the Ca-mosun College Chargers, while the ladies were de-feated in both matches.

Volleyball action took over the gymnasium at the College of the Rock-ies on Friday night, and the men’s Avs came out successful with a 3-1 match victory, while the women were blanked 3-0.

Despite losing the first set, the men’s Avs roared back, winning the next three for the win, includ-ing a tight 26-24 in the third set.

“We seemed to really control the match,” said men’s Avs head coach Steve Kamps. “It was one of the best, if not the best, blocking matches of the year and we were able to pass the ball really well and as a result, we got Dave and Taylor balls in

the middle on our of-fence and they both had a really strong night for us.”

Saturday was a differ-ent story for the men, which struggled with a shorter bench due to an injury and sickness, ac-cording to Kamps.

Part of the troubles could also be attributed to his players taking an individual approach to the match in an effort to replicate the success from the night before, Kamps added.

“It just seemed like we were all trying to win the match on every swing and everybody was try-ing to do too much as in-dividuals rather than playing as a team,” said Kamps.

The women put up a better fight in their sec-ond match, coming with-in two points of winning the first set, but the Chargers prevailed and won the following two for the sweep.

Mixed weekend for Avalanche

Joey Leach

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Teresa Hiram’s Grand Forks-based rink is off to the provincial championships, to be held in Trail in February, after winning the zone qualifying tournament at the Cranbrook Curling Club this weekend past. Left to right: Cindy Pattapice, Rose Beauchamp, Lee Bedard, Teresa Hiram.

Curling centre hosts senior provincial zone playdownsTre vor Cr awley

Sports Editor

Local curler Tom Shypitka and his team have won the right to represent the Kootenay region at the provincial senior tournament in Trail in February.

Shypitka, who calls Cranbrook home, skipped a team com-prised of Fred Thom-son, Don Freschi and Bill King, who curl in other communities across the East and West Kootenay.

Joining Shypitka in representing the Koote-nays is another team skipped by Myron Nich-ol, who represents the Castlegar Curling Club, which captured the sec-ond available qualifier spot.

Along with the men, two women’s teams battled it out for a single spot to the women’s provincial event, with

Teresa Hiram and her team winning two out of three draws to earn the qualifier.

Shypitka beat Nichol 11-2 in their first draw, and followed up with a 6-5 decision over a team skipped by Ken McHar-gue that included fellow Cranbrookian Gerry Kent.

That win put Shypit-ka in the draw where the winner took a quali-fier and his team came out victorious at the end in a tense 10-8 win over a team skipped by Ralph Will out of Cres-ton.

“Experience, I think that’s our biggest card,” said Shypitka, on what gave his team the edge over the three day qual-ifying event. “Me and Fred and Don have all played at a high level and Bill is an excellent curler as well.”

Nichol had a longer

road to the qualifier, after losing the initial meeting with Shyptika at 11-2.

His team followed up with three consecu-tive wins that put him in the second qualifier draw against Ralph Will, and his team came out with their fourth win to clinch the spot.

On the women’s side, Harim and her team earned back to back wins over a team skipped by Deb de Tremaudan to earn the right to represent the Kootenays at the senior women’s provincial tournament.

“The girls just shot great,” said Harim. “Couldn’t have been happier with them. The ice was amazing. The whole event was really well done.

“…As long as every-one is shooting, you do well.”

However, Montgom-ery put Kootenay back in the lead when he drove to the net from the sideboards and waited out Lanigan as he crossed the crease to chip the puck in.

Reinhart added the token empty netter to complete his hat trick in the final minute.

Special teams was the success story of the night, as Kootenay’s powerplay capitalized three times in their five opportunities.

The Ice rolled in to Spokane on Saturday to put their streak on the line, but lost 4-2 after

being unable to recover from a pair of goals by the Chiefs in the first pe-riod.

Mitch Holmberg and Brenden Kichton gave the Chiefs an early lead before Jaedon Desche-neau answered for the Ice in the second peri-od.

Holmberg restored the two goal lead after the halfway mark, but Philp put the Ice back within a goal late in the frame.

Dylan Walchuk added Spokane’s fourth goal at the midway point of the final period, as his team kept the Ice at bay

and held on for the win.McGill chalked up

the loss to the fact that all four lines weren’t fir-ing during the game.

“The fourth goal was a bad goal and it took the wind out of our sails,” said McGill, “and we were tired, because we had to play with two lines in the second peri-od.

“We just had too many passengers.”

Kootenay is now on a four game road swing through Saskatchewan where they will play Sas-katoon, Prince Albert, Regina and Moose Jaw for four games in five nights.

ConTinued from page 8

Road will be a big test for Ice

Nitros suffer a pair of lossesTre vor Cr awley

Sports Editor

The Nitros fizzled on the road this weekend, dropping an 8-2 decision in Invermere to the Rockies on Friday and losing a 3-1 game to the Rockets in Golden on Saturday.

The Rockies rode a 3-0 lead after the first pe-riod and never looked back as the Nitros strug-gled to contain Colum-bia Valley’s offence.

Josh Haley, Jerome Thorne and Brendan Burge lit the goal lamp in the first period as the Rockies outshot the Ni-tros 17-6.

Columbia Valley kept it going in the second period, with a goal from

Ryan Henderson on the man advantage, before Jacob Boyczuk respond-ed shortly afterwards for Kimberley.

Racey Red Crow piled on for Columbia Valley’s fifth goal with two min-utes to go in the frame.

Stephen Pratt made it 6-1 after the halfway mark for the Rockies, but Jason Richter managed to get Kimberley’s sec-ond goal just over a min-ute later.

But the Rockies weren’t done, as Haley and Henderson both scored their second goals of the game.

Saturday was a better effort, as the Nitros and Rockets went scoreless in the first frame, before

Golden notched a power play marker from Jacob Bergeron in the middle period.

The Rockets added an early goal in the final frame from Josh Jewell, before Taylor McDowell responded with a pow-erplay goal.

However, Golden sealed up the win with an empty netter from Blake Roney with a sec-ond left on the clock.

Goaltender Jeremy Mousseau took the loss in the crease for the Ni-tros in both games.

Kimberley is back at it on Tuesday for a mid-week game and rematch against the Columbia Valley Rockies on home ice.


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FREDERICTON — A frisky New Brunswick feline whose weight loss journey garnered in-ternational attention and helped raised thousands of dollars for a local animal shelter has found a new home.

Tiny, a loveable grey house cat with piercing green eyes, was ad-opted by his foster mother Nancy Garon on Saturday, one year after the astoundingly large feline was found inside a box outside the Fredericton SPCA.

At the time, he weighed 13.7 kilograms. He’s now 7.5 kilo-grams.

LeeAnn Haggerty, the SPCA’s education co-ordinator, said Tiny donned one of his signature bow ties for the big day — a custom crystal-studded black velvet piece.

“It was a special day,’’ said Haggerty on Sunday from Freder-icton. “It was a nice way for us to

celebrate what we’ve all accom-plished over the last year.’’

Since last January, Tiny has been diligently working to shed the pounds. He was put on a high protein, low carbohydrate meal plan — dubbed the “catkins’’ diet — of three cans of wet food and a quarter cup of dry food per day. He also exercises for at least 15 minutes.

Tiny was weighed weekly, photos and details of which were posted on a Facebook page called Tiny’s Weight Loss Challenge that has nearly 4,800 friends.

His weight loss drew the atten-tion of national and international media — including CNN and People magazine’s website — as people across the world tracked his progress.

“I think it was shocking to ev-erybody just how far his story has gone,’’ said Haggerty. “We’ve re-ceived messages from all over the United States, the U.K., Australia

— all over the world really.’’Haggerty said Tiny will contin-

ue to work as an ambassador for the SPCA, raising awareness about pet health and the impor-tance of adoption.

He’s a happy, energetic cat that loves chasing laser pointers and being taunted by a feather wand.

“He loves to play,’’ said Hag-gerty. “As he started to lose the weight, he definitely had more endurance and more energy and could play more.’’

Although he’s part of the feline family, Haggerty said she thinks a lot of people see themselves in Tiny.

“We can all relate to weight is-sues,’’ said Haggerty, noting the timing of Tiny’s arrival at the shel-ter coincided with the season of new year resolution-making.

“I think we all have something that we can relate to in Tiny’s story.’’

Cat famous for weight loss finds new home

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Tiny, a loveable grey house cat, was adopted by his foster mother on Saturday, one year after he was found inside a box outside the Fredericton SPCA. At the time, he weighed 13.7 kilograms. He’s now 7.5 kilograms.

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BOSTON — For more than two decades, crime writer Patricia Cornwell has famously dramatized the life of a fictional medical exam-iner in her bestselling books. Now, she has her own personal drama unfolding in federal court.

Cornwell, a wildly successful author through her novels about Dr. Kay Scarpetta, is suing her former fi-nancial management firm and business man-ager for negligence and breach of contract, claiming they cost her and her company mil-lions in investment loss-es and unaccounted for revenues during their 4 1/2-year relationship.

The Boston trial has opened a window into the life of the intensely private Cornwell, who has had to listen from the front row of the courtroom while a law-yer for the management firm described her spending habits for the jury: $40,000 a month for an apartment in New York City, $5 million for a private jet service, $11 million to buy proper-ties in Concord, Mass.

Cornwell’s spouse, Staci Gruber, a neuro-scientist who is an assis-tant psychiatry profes-sor at Harvard Medical School, spent much of

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the first week of the trial on the witness stand testifying about the cou-ple’s relationship with Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP, a New York ac-counting and wealth management firm, and Evan Snapper, a former principal in the firm.

Cornwell fired the firm after discovering in July 2009 that the net worth of her and her company, despite hav-ing eight-figure earnings per year during the pre-vious four years, was a little under $13 million, the equivalent of only one year’s net income. She also claims in the lawsuit that Anchin had borrowed several mil-lion dollars, including

mortgages for property and a loan for the pur-chase of a helicopter, and had lost millions by moving her from a con-servative investment strategy to high-risk without her permission.

Cornwell, 56, says problems caused by An-chin and Snapper were so distracting that they caused her to miss a book deadline and cost her $15 million in non-recoverable ad-vances and commis-sions.

Lawyers for Anchin and Snapper deny Cornwell’s claims. During opening state-ments at the trial, attor-ney James Campbell described Cornwell as

“a demanding client’’ who “tends to push off responsibility and as-sign blame when things go off track.’’

“I do what I do when and how I do it,’’ she al-legedly wrote in an email to Snapper read by Campbell to the jury.

Anchin and Snapper claim there is no money missing from Cornwell’s accounts, that any in-vestment losses were caused by the financial and housing crisis at the time, and that the fees they charged her were reasonable for the ser-vices they provided, in-cluding everything from business management to bringing Cornwell’s clothes to the tailor to arranging care for her mother.

“Where did the money go? Ms. Corn-well and Dr. Gruber spent the money,’’ Campbell said. “You have to consider the large lifestyles involved, the spending habits, im-pulsive buying.’’

Cornwell, who is ex-pected to testify during the trial, says in the law-suit that Anchin bor-rowed money in her name for real estate in-vestments ventures without telling her. She said she also found checks written for ex-penses she never autho-rized, including a $5,000 check for a bat mitzvah gift to Snapper’s daugh-

ter from Cornwell.Cornwell said one of

Anchin’s primary func-tions in 2006 was to en-sure that locations were arranged where she could write without dis-traction while her home was undergoing recon-struction. She said Snapper leased a series of expensive apart-ments, including one at Trump Tower in New York, that she had to leave long before leases expired because of con-struction, privacy or other issues.

In the lawsuit, Corn-well openly acknowl-edges her struggles with bipolar disorder, an ill-ness she said has con-tributed to her belief that she needs other people to manage her business affairs and in-vestments.

“This case is, at is core, about trust,’’ her lawyer, Joan Lukey, told the jury. “There is no amount of money that is enough to properly compensate her for what Anchin, Block and Anchin did.’’

Cornwell, a former newspaper reporter, also worked for the chief medical examiner’s of-fice in Virginia before her first novel in the Scarpetta series was published in the early 1990s. During the course of her career, she has sold more than 100 million books.

BENjAmIN ShINgLERCanadian Press

MONTREAL — An extended January thaw in parts of Quebec and Ontario has put a major dent in the outdoor hockey season. But an increasing number of municipalities, re-sponding to fluctuating temperatures, are now using artificial refrigera-tion to keep their skat-ing rinks frozen through the winter months.

Unseasonably mild weather and rain over the past few days in Montreal has turned the city’s outdoor rinks to slush. The only ones with a hope of remain-ing operational are equipped with cooling systems below the ice, including several built with the help of a local charity.

“We wanted to make sure we could maximize the use of the rinks,’’ Genevieve Paquette, ex-ecutive director of the Montreal Canadiens Children’s Foundation, said of the decision to use artificially-cooled ice.

Some warmer cities, like Toronto, have been using cooling systems for years. More than 50 of the city’s outdoor rinks are compressor cooled, which makes it possible for them to op-erate in a range of weather conditions.

Ottawa also opened

an artificial outdoor skating rink last year with the help of their own NHL team, the Senators.

The technology may become essential to ex-tending Canada’s favou-rite winter pastime.

A study released last March said that outdoor hockey is being threat-ened by climate change. The study, co-authored by a McGill University professor Lawrence Mysak, said that ice rinks were opening later over and closing earlier in the year.

The hardest hit re-gions are the Prairies, southeastern British Co-lumbia, southern On-tario and Quebec, ac-cording to the study.

Francois Bilodeau, whose Sherbrooke, Que.-based company specializes in skating rink cooling systems, said interest in the tech-nology continues to grow.

In recent years, LeP-rohon Group has set up temporary skating rinks for festivals like the win-ter carnival in Quebec City.

It has also installed low-budget cooling sys-tems for rinks in north-ern Quebec, New Bruns-wick and Nunavut, where indoor commu-nity rinks that once re-lied on sub-zero tem-peratures now require an air cooling system.

The future of outdoor hockeySkating rinks kept cool artificially

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KINGSTON, Jamaica — A British schoolgirl visiting relatives in a rural village in northern Jamaica was fatally shot when a lone gunman opened fire on a group of family members as they gathered at a road-side shop, officials said Sunday.

Imani Green, 8, of Balham in south Lon-don, was standing in-side a clapboard grocery store and bar with Ja-maican relatives Friday evening when a gun-man wearing a hoodie shot the child in the head and shoulder be-fore also shooting and wounding three adult members of her family.

The high command of Jamaica’s police force said Sunday that Imani was “mercilessly slaugh-

tered in front of family members in a hail of bullets as gangsters sought to exact revenge on their rivals’’ in the normally quiet Red Dirt district of Duncans in Trelawny parish.

The roadside busi-ness where the shooting occurred is apparently owned by a female rela-tive of the slain girl. There have been no ar-rests.

The girl died from her injuries while un-dergoing treatment at a hospital in nearby Fal-mouth, a historic coast-al town that is home to the tourism-dependent Caribbean island’s new-est cruise ship port. The three adults were listed in stable condition.

The British Foreign & Commonwealth Office said it was providing con-sular assistance to the

family and working with Jamaican authorities.

James Mortimer, a press officer with the British agency, said Imani’s relatives were “very distressed’’ and “appealing for privacy.’’ Imani, her mother and sister had planned on visiting relatives in Ja-maica until the end of the month.

Janella Parmer, the slain child’s sister, told the BBC that she found her young sibling in a pool of blood after hear-ing gunshots outside.

“I picked her up off the ground and realized she was still breathing. I flagged down a car and they drove us to hospi-tal. The rest is history,’’ the BBC quoted Parmer as saying.

Jamaican Security Minister Peter Bunting said the “senseless kill-

ing of a young, innocent child must outrage all well-thinking Jamai-cans.’’

The island’s govern-ment said the Falmouth police are conducting an “extensive investiga-tion into the matter and will expend every effort to ensure that the per-petrator is apprehended and brought to justice.’’

There has been a heavy police presence in Duncans since the shooting.

Neighbours said they were shocked by the slaying of the child in a generally peaceful dis-trict where many people farm for a living or com-mute to jobs in Fal-mouth or Montego Bay. Pastors decried the vio-lence during weekend church services.

“It is so, so sad. And for this to happen in

Duncans is just hard to believe. This is maybe the second shooting here that I can remem-ber,’’ said resident Elaine R. Duncan.

Sadiq Khan, a British lawmaker who rep-resents the schoolgirl’s south London area in the British Parliament, tweeted Sunday that he was “devastated’’ to learn of the killing.

There were 1,087 ho-micides last year on the island of some 2.8 mil-lion people. It was the lowest number of kill-ings in nine years in Ja-maica, but authorities acknowledge that the island’s rate of violent crime is still unaccept-ably high.

Most of Jamaica’s vi-olence takes place in rough slums, with tour-ist resorts largely crime-free.

British girl killed by gunman in Jamaica

Tributes have been paid to a British girl shot dead in Jamaica. Imani Green, eight, from south London, was described as a ‘happy, playful’ child.

Dave collinsAssociated Press

NEWTOWN, Conn. — Talk about Sandy Hook Elementary School is turning from last month’s massacre to the fu-ture, with differing opinions on whether students and staff should ever return to the build-ing where a gunman killed 20 students and six educators.

Some Newtown residents say the school should be de-molished and a memorial built on the property in honour of those killed Dec. 14. Others be-lieve the school should be ren-ovated and the areas where the killings occurred removed. That’s what happened at Col-umbine High School in Little-ton, Colorado, after the 1999 mass shooting there.

Those appear to be the two prevailing proposals as the community begins discussing the school’s fate. A public meeting on the building’s fu-ture drew about 200 people to Newtown High School on Sun-day afternoon, with another meeting set for Friday. Town officials also are planning pri-vate meetings with the victims’ families to get their input.

Sunday’s meeting was an emotional gathering with many speaking in favour of keeping the school. Although opinions were mixed, most agreed that the Sandy Hook children and teachers should stay together. They’ve been moved to a school building about seven miles (11 kilome-tres) away in a neighbouring town that has been renamed

Sandy Hook Elementary School.

“I have two children who had everything taken from them,’’ said Audrey Bart, who has two children at Sandy Hook who weren’t injured in the shooting. “The Sandy Hook Elementary School is their school. It is not the world’s school. It is not Newtown’s school. We cannot pretend it never happened, but I am not prepared to ask my children to run and hide. You can’t take away their school.’’

But fellow Sandy Hook par-ent Stephanie Carson said she couldn’t imagine ever sending her son back to the building.

“I know there are children who were there who want to go back,’’ Carson said. “But the reality is, I’ve been to the new school where the kids are now, and we have to be so careful just walking through the halls. They are still so scared.’’

Mergim Bajraliu, a senior at Newtown High School, attend-ed Sandy Hook, and his sister is a fourth-grader there. He said the school should stay as it is, and a memorial for the vic-tims should be built there.

“We have our best child-hood memories at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and I don’t believe that one psychopath — who I refuse to name — should get away with taking away any more than he did on Dec. 14,’’ he said.

Police said Adam Lanza, 20, killed his mother at the home they shared in Newtown before opening fire with a semiauto-

A month after massacre, Newtown considers what to do with school

Jessica Hill/THe associaTed Press

A child sits on a Newtown bus leaving the new Sandy Hook Elementary School on the first day of classes in Monroe, Conn., Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. matic rifle at the school and killing himself as police ar-rived.

Residents of towns where mass shootings occurred have grappled with the same dilem-ma. Some have renovated, some have demolished.

Columbine High School, where two student gunmen killed 12 schoolmates and a teacher, reopened several months afterward. Crews re-moved the library, where most of the victims died, and re-placed it with an atrium.

On an island in Norway where 69 people — more than half of them teenagers attend-ing summer camp — were killed by a gunman in 2011, extensive remodeling is planned. The main building, a cafeteria where 13 of the vic-tims died, will be torn down.

Virginia Tech converted a

classroom building where a stu-dent gunman killed 30 people in 2007 into a peace studies and violence prevention centre.

A community in Pennsylva-nia tore down the West Nickel Mines Amish School and built a new school a few hundred yards away after a gunman killed five girls there in 2006.

Newtown First Selectwom-an E. Patricia Llodra said that in addition to the community meetings, the town is planning private gatherings with the vic-tims’ families to talk about the school’s future. She said the aim is to finalize by March.

“I think we have to start that conversation now,’’ Llodra said. “It will take many, many months to do any kind of school project. We have very big decisions ahead of us. The goal is to bring our students home as soon as we can.’’

lynn BerryAssociated Press

MOSCOW — Thousands of people marched through Moscow on Sunday to protest Russia’s new law banning Americans from adopting Rus-sian children.

Shouting “shame on the scum,’’ protesters carried posters of President Vladimir Putin and members of Russia’s parliament who over-whelmingly voted for the law last month.

Outrage over the adoption ban has breathed some life into the dispirited anti-Kremlin opposi-tion movement, whose protests against Putin and his government have flagged.

Sunday’s protest was led by the same array of opposition leaders who spoke a year ago to tens of thousands of people demanding free elections and an end to Putin’s 12 years in power.

One poster on Sunday said: “Parliament dep-uties to orphanages, Putin to an old people’s home.’’

The adoption ban was retaliation for a new U.S. law targeting Russians accused of human rights abuses.

It also addresses long-brewing resentment in Russia over the 60,000 Russian children who have been adopted by Americans in the past two decades.

Those opposed to the law say its main vic-tims are not Americans but the Russian or-phans, including some with disabilities, who otherwise would get new families in the United States.

They also accuse Putin’s government of stok-ing anti-American sentiments in Russian society in an effort to solidify support.

Opponents of the ban have been portrayed as unpatriotic citizens eager to “export’’ Russia’s children.

Just ahead of the weekend protest, Putin’s spokesman sought to ease anger over the adop-tion ban by announcing that some of the dozens of adoptions already under way could go for-ward, allowing children who have already bond-ed with American adoptive parents to leave the country.

Thousands protest Russia’s ban on

American adoptions

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*Based on 2010, 2011, and 2012 total sales fi gures for light vehicles in Canada from DesRosiers Automotive Consultants Inc. (and the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers of Canada and Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association).

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FORD F-150

FORD MUSTANG FORD ESCAPE

FORD FUSION FORD FOCUS

For the third year in a row, more Canadians chose a new Ford vehicle than any other automotive brand.

Ford and our hard-working dealers would like to thank you for that honour. Together, we reached

total sales of 276,068* vehicles in 2012 and we aim to Go Further with you in 2013.

CANADA’S BEST-SELLING AUTOMOTIVE

BRAND

Kimberley Daily Bulletin, January 14, 2013

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