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January 2 Dalke takes on biathlon

The running wasn’t Nikita’s Dalke’s forte for the biathlon, but it was a different story when she has a rifle in her hands. On the final episode of Extreme Huntress, Dalke and the rest of her competitors competed in the final challenge as part of the Ex-treme Huntress competition—a biathlon. Each of the ladies had to run a mile, stopping at two differ-ent points to shoot targets with a .22 calibre rifle, with a long-distance 200-yard shot at the end with a .270 calibre rifle. Dalke, of course, blew the 200-yard target away on her first shot.

January 6Local climbers win gold in new international

competitionTwo local climbers were hoping to make it to the

next level on the competitive side of their sport. And they had already begun to prove themselves in their first-ever competition. Noah Beek and Karlee Hall had returned to Cranbrook as youth champions following their efforts at the inaugural UIAA Youth Mixed Climbing International competition in Colo-rado.

January 8Youth in custody after ‘knife incident’

Police responded to an incident involving a stu-dent being cut by a knife just after noon on Wednes-day, Jan. 7. The investigation by Cranbrook RCMP found that two students had become involved in a physical altercation in a hallway at Mount Baker Secondary School. Staff Sgt Dave Dubnyk said that during the altercation, one student removed a knife from his pocket and swung it striking the other stu-dent in the face.

“The victim was taken to the East Kootenay Re-gional Hospital where he was treated for non-life threatening injuries,” Dubnyk said. “The alleged suspect was located near the school and taken into custody without incident.”

January 9Fluoridation bylaw readings rescinded

At the Monday meeting, city council rescinded the three readings that dealt removing fluoride from the drinking water. The Cease Fluoridation Bylaw was intended to authorize stopping the addition of fluoride to the public drinking water if the Nov. 15 referendum vote had succeeded. Since it hadn’t, the bylaw readings needed to be rescinded.

January 16200 affected in Cranbrook when Target pulls out

Target went ahead with a plan to discontinue Canadian operations. The company announced the news after filing for creditor protection in Ontario Supreme Court. The company had 133 stores across the country, including a location in Cranbrook, which employed approximately 200 people.

The year that wasThe Townsman looks back on

select top stories of 2015

See 2015 IN REVIEW, Page 3

ARNE PETRYSHENThere were 21 motor vehicle

accidents over the week of Monday, Dec. 21 to Monday Dec. 28.

Staff Sgt. Hector Lee said five of the accidents resulted in non-life threatening injuries.

“Most of them were on the highway, out of town,” Lee said. “We can attribute most of those accidents to the weather and poor driving.”

It is Lee’s first winter in the East Kootenay and he said he was surprised by how fast peo-ple are driving in the slippery conditions.

“You would just think peo-ple would slow down a little bit around here, but that’s not the case,” he said.

The majority of the acci-dents occurred on Dec. 24 and Dec. 28, when the big snowfalls occurred.

On Monday, RCMP re-sponded to eight collisions in a matter of five hours. They at-tributed the accidents to ex-treme road conditions and speed. Police noted that High-wy 3/93, Hwy 95A and Hwy 3/95 were extremely slippery and asked motorists to use cau-

21 accidents over Christmas break, result of icy conditions

CHAD ST. PIERRE PHOTO

Five people in this black Ford were injured in this crash on Steamboat Hill on Monday, December 28. The highway was closed while emergency personnel extricated the victims. Police are asking motorists to slow down and drive to conditions.

tion while driving. They also suggested Monday that people only travel if absolutely neces-sary and instead wait until conditions improve.

Mainroad, the company in charge of plow operations for East Kootenay roads, was ex-pecting sporadic snow flurries Tuesday with low cloud and the weather is slowly moving

south east through the area.  This will be followed by cold temperatures of around -15 degrees Celsius. 

“We have compact snow with slippery sections on all highways in the service area,” said Niki Taylor, Mainroad Group Communica-tions. “Plowing and sanding is in progress. We will be using a

pre-wetted sand to combat these conditions.”

Taylor said Mainroad would commence salting and de-ic-ing once the road and air tem-peratures warm up to -6 degree Celsius or warmer for a period of four to six hours, which al-lows de-icing chemicals to work and resultant slush to be removed.

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Nitros slip past Ghostriders in annual holiday gatheringTaylor rocc a

When the Kimberley Dynamiters and Fernie Ghostriders get togeth-er, it’s always an exciting night to be at the rink and Monday evening was no exception.

The annual East Kootenay holiday tradi-tion was in its finest form, as the Dynamiters and Ghostriders went back-and-forth, before the hosts claimed an electrifying 3-2 victory in KIJHL action in front of 1,019 fans at the Kim-berley Civic Centre.

Pesky winger Eric Buckley scored the dif-ference-maker with 5:17 remaining in the third period, doing what he does best — parking on top of the blue paint be-fore banging a rebound past Ghostriders goal-tender Jeff Orser.

“It’s probably one of the better feelings,” Buckley said of beating the Ghostriders. “The only thing better is beat-ing them in the playoffs.

“You’ve got to pay the price to get those dirty goals. I’ve been doing it for a while now…It was a nice shot by [Justin] Meier there and a tip by [Keenan] Haase right to me and I had an empty net.”

Buckley’s effort, his career-high 16th goal of the campaign, capped a third-period comeback from the Nitros, who trailed 2-1 heading into the final 20 minutes.

With word coming down that Dynamiters captain Jason Richter is expected to miss the du-ration of the regular sea-son due to an up-per-body injury, Buck-

ley’s leadership and presence has become even more important.

“A great role model for our guys is Eric Buckley, who the other team runs at and takes liberties with constantly,” said Nitros coach Jerry Bancks.

“His dogged deter-mination, it’s going to be critical. He’s a special player. He’s a special kid.”

It was another Nitros leader who started the comeback as Jared Mar-chi knotted the game at 2-2 less than five minutes into the third period.

The win didn’t come easy for the hosts as the visitors came out with a strong start off the open-ing puck drop.

“We started great for the first five minutes and then we just seemed to stop playing our game,”

Bancks said. “They took it to us a bit.

“In the second and third period, we clearly started to take the game over… We didn’t give them a lot of scoring chances. Our ‘D’ played extremely well.”

The first period pro-vided nothing short of the usual fireworks fans have come to expect as both Eddie Mountain Division rivals came out roaring, with bodies fly-ing left, right and centre as each side fought to establish a physical presence early on.

“I heard a lot about the Kimberley-Fernie ri-valry from my buddies who played here before,” said Ghostriders alter-nate captain Zach Befus. “I never really realized until I came and saw for myself. It’s crazy. It’s good. It gets you excited. It gets you nervous — that feeling when your stomach is churning be-fore the game. It’s huge.

“It’s a tough one [to lose]. It’s going to sting.”

Aidan Wilson and Ryan Kennedy struck midway through the opening period to give Fernie a quick 2-0 lead, sucking plenty of energy out of the jam-packed Kimberley Civic Centre.

Late in the period, with Nitros defenceman Jordan Busch serving a penalty, Justin Meier did

what all coaches beg of their players — put the puck on net.

From his own blue-line, the veteran ham-mered one in on Orser, surprising himself and everyone else in the building after hearing the thud of rubber find-ing the back of the net.

“We came out and played a fabulous first period,” said Craig Mohr, coach and GM of the Ghostriders. “They get one from their far end — that’s the one-in-a-mil-lion shot that goes by Ors. He’s feeling bad in there and he shouldn’t. Those things happen.

“The second and third period, that hockey team [the Nitros] out-worked our hockey team…We try to try to pride ourselves on being one of the harder work-ing teams in this league and we got outworked by Beaver Valley before Christmas and we just got outworked again. There’s going to be a little meeting with the fellas on the bus ride home.”

The teams were back at it Tuesday as the Rid-ers (19-11-0-3) hosted the Nitros (27-4-0-3) in Fernie. Results were un-available as of press time. With files from Sara Moulton

Watch Thursday’s Townsman/Bulletin for Tuesday results.

Ice fall to Hitmen in Calgary

Kootenay Ice Scoring SummaryMonday, deceMber 28

Kootenay Ice 2at calgary HItMen 3

First Period 1. CGY - T. Mrkonjic, (9) (Ta. Sanheim, C. Harmsworth), 15:39Second Period 2. KTN - M. Alfaro, (9) (D. Stewart, Z. Zborosky), 7:39 (PP)3. KTN - B. Allbee, (3) (R. Beattie, D. Stewart), 11:49Third Period 4. CGY - J. Bean, (14) (J. Houck, J. Stallard), 2:10 (PP)5. CGY - J. Stukel, (21) (J. Bean, A. Hyman), 7:31Shots 1 2 3 TKootenay Ice 2 7 13 22 Calgary Hitmen 10 13 10 33Goaltenders Saves Mins SV%KTN - Wyatt Hoflin 30/33 59:29 0.909CGY - Cody Porter 20/22 60:00 0.909Power playsKootenay Ice 1/2 (50.0%)Calgary Hitmen 1/3 (33.3%)Three Stars1) D Jake Bean, Calgary Hitmen (1G, 1A);2) LW Taylor Sanheim, Calgary Hitmen (1A); 3) G Wyatt Hoflin, Kootenay Ice (30 saves)Attendance: 10,597 (Scotiabank Saddledome)

Saturday, deceMber 19

Kootenay Ice 2at edMonton oIl KIngS 5

First Period 1. EDM - A. Irving, (4) (L. Bertolucci, T. Robertson), 9:22 (PP)Second Period 2. EDM - B. Pollock, (12) (L. Bauer), 3:073. EDM - L. Bauer, (17) (D. Mayo, B. Baddock), 6:01 (PP)4. EDM - B. Pollock, (13) (unassisted), 13:28 (SH)5. KTN - J. Wenzel, (3) (N. Philp, J. Legien), 14:35 (PP)Third Period 6. KTN - J. Zaharichuk, (5) (M. Alfaro, Z. Zborosky), 7:367. EDM - B. Baddock, (14) (B. Pollock, D. Mayo), 14:31 (PP)Shots 1 2 3 TKootenay Ice 3 14 5 22 Edmonton Oil Kings 6 13 21 40

Goaltenders Saves Mins SV%KTN - Declan Hobbs 35/40 60:00 0.875EDM - Patrick Dea 20/22 60:00 0.909Power playsKootenay Ice 1/5 (20.0%)Edmonton Oil Kings 3/4 (75.0%)Three Stars1) LW Brett Pollock, Edmonton Oil Kings (2G, 1A);2) C Lane Bauer, Edmonton Oil Kings (1G, 1A); 3) D Aaron Irving, Edmonton Oil Kings (1G)Attendance: 6,362 (Rexall Place)

Kootenay IceScoring StatisticsPlayer GP G A PTS PIM Luke Philp 22 13 16 29 30 Zak Zborosky 23 13 11 24 8Jesse Zaharichuk 26 5 12 17 6Matt Alfaro 36 8 8 16 50Cale Fleury 25 3 7 10 17Austin Wellsby 36 4 4 8 6Vince Loschiavo 32 3 5 8 18Bryan Allbee 35 2 6 8 18Noah Philp 35 1 7 8 14Dylan Stewart 30 4 3 7 4Roman Dymacek 32 3 4 7 22Tanner Lishchynsky 26 0 7 7 28Max Patterson 29 3 2 5 16Troy Murray 34 0 5 5 29Mario Grman 36 0 5 5 35River Beattie 26 2 2 4 19Jared Legien 35 2 2 4 21Dylan Overdyk 31 0 4 4 12Jason Wenzel 25 3 0 3 8Dallas Hines 28 2 1 3 14Shane Allan 30 0 2 2 18Austin Gray 11 1 0 1 11Jaedon Descheneau 2 0 1 1 5Wyatt Hoflin 26 0 1 1 4Eli Lieffers (AP) 2 0 0 0 0Connor Barley (AP) 3 0 0 0 0

Goaltending StatisticsPlayer W L OT/SL SO GAA SPWyatt Hoflin 4 19 1 1 3.86 0.896Declan Hobbs 1 8 1 0 4.68 0.874

December GlanceTues., Dec. 1 at Kamloops (5-1 L)Wed., Dec. 2 at Kelowna (4-1 L)

Taylor rocc aSports Editor

Kimberley Dynamiters general manager Mike Reid continues to bolster his lineup.

Monday night, Reid confirmed the signing of 19-year-old forward Franco Colapaolo, a 5-foot-10, 180-pound forward and native of Calgary.

According to Reid, Colapaolo is expected in Kim-berley Wednesday night and should be ready to suit up Saturday when the Beaver Valley Nitehawks visit the Kimberley Civic Centre (7 p.m.).

Colapaolo started the season with the Calgary Mustangs of the Alberta Junior Hockey League, going pointless in four games before joining the Fort Frances Lakers of the Superior International Junior Hockey League (Junior A), skating in 12 games, tal-lying one goal and two assists.

Colapaolo is no stranger to B.C. Junior B, includ-ing the KIJHL, having suited up for 23 games (5-9-14) with the Grand Forks Border Bruins in 2013-14. He also spent 66 games with the Comox Valley Gla-cier Kings of the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League over parts of two season (2013-14 to 2014-15), registering 10 goals and 22 points.

Dynamiters add 19-year-old forward Franco Colapaolo

Taylor rocc aSports Editor

The Kootenay Ice came close but coudn’t put an end to what is now a season-long 14-game losing streak as they dropped a 3-2 decision to the Calgary Hitmen Monday at the Scotiabank Saddledome.

After Hitmen forward Tyler Mrkonjic opened the scoring with his ninth of the season in the first peri-od, the Ice responded with a pair of second period markers as centre Matt Alfaro tied the affair before defenceman Bryan Allbee gave his squad a 2-1 edge through 40 minutes of play.

After putting forth a strong performance Sunday in Cranbrook, Hitmen defenceman Jake Bean earned his second consecutive first-star recogni-tion, scoring the game-tying goal before setting up the game-winner during the third period of Mon-day’s contest in Calgary.

Between the pipes, Ice goaltender Wyatt Hoflin made 30 stops, while Cody Porter was good on 20 of 22 attempts to collect his 14th win of the season.

Next up, the Ice (6-30-2-0) host the Red Deer Rebels (24-13-0-0) Thursday (4 p.m.) at Western Fi-nancial Place.

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January 20Report shows SD5 grad rate

above B.C. averageThe Southeast Kootenay board of

education approved a report on stu-dent achievement from the superin-tendent that will be sent to the Min-istry of Education. The report is an annual document that takes an in-depth look at student achievement in schools across the district.

January 21Council rezones property

in spite of concerns Despite concerns expressed by

two residents regarding the pro-posed rezoning of a property locat-ed in the city’s industrial area, coun-cil went ahead with the third read-ing and adoption of the bylaw amendment. City staff recommend-ed that council adopt the rezoning of the land located at 6th Street NW, which will enable consideration of subdivision and residential devel-opment of the property. The proper-ty is located just up the hill from Farbrook Auto Wrecking.

January 27One arrested in theft

of snowmobileA police dog successfully tracked

and apprehended a male subject after a snowmobile was stolen on Westview Road near Cranbrook. On Jan. 19 at 10:20 p.m., Cranbrook RCMP members responded to the call about a theft in progress. The owner of the sled had jumped in his vehicle and chased after the sus-pect. The subject fled on foot after hitting and damaging the owner’s truck with the snowmobile. Police learned there were three subjects involved. Police Dog Services re-sponded to the scene and success-fully tracked and apprehended one male.

January 29Dalke wraps up Extreme Huntress

competitionAfter 13 episodes chronicling

various hunts and challenges be-tween six competitors, Sweden’s Erika Bergmark captured the title of Extreme Huntress, as the winner was unveiled earlier in January at a banquet in Texas. Despite her best efforts on the ranch, Kimberley resi-dent Nikita Dalke came out as the runner-up, after all the points were totalled up.

January 30Break-in suspect leads police in

daylong manhuntA combined effort by a number

of detachments and units including a helicopter resulted in the arrest of four individuals believed to be in-volved in a break and enter.

February 2Salvation Army steps up after

building evacuatedThe Salvation Army was able to

step in and provide emergency shel-ter services to roughly 16 people after they were displaced from an unsafe building earlier this week. Emergency services personnel had to remove residents of what was be-lieved to be an unoccupied building on 11th Ave. due to fire safety con-cerns last Tuesday, according to Wayne Price, the director of Fire and Emergency Services with the city of Cranbrook.

February 3A growth industry for Cranbrook

Cranbrook could be on the fore-

front of a burgeoning medical mari-juana industry. Dycar Pharmaceuti-cals, a private B.C. incorporated company, announced its plans, well underway, to establish a licensed commercial facility in the city’s in-dustrial zone. The proposed facility will be located in an existing 86,000 square foot building. The facility will house the growing operations and the head office. Dycar noted it will employ up to 200 people at full pro-duction and estimates the facility will be an $8 million investment.

February 10Canfor cuts shift at

Canal Flats millThe Canal Flats saw mill will

begin operating on one shift as of May 4, 2015, Canfor has confirmed. Corinne Stavness from the corpo-rate head office in Toronto says that due to a lack of economically avail-able fibre in the region, the saw mill will go from two shifts to one.

February 12Rift splits Kimberley Search and Rescue

The City of Kimberley was trying to decide what to do about Kimber-ley Search and Rescue. The Kimber-ley Search and Rescue Society was dissolved by the Province late last year, Coun. Kent Goodwin said, for failing to provide proper documen-tation. “Two different groups are in-corporating to provide search and rescue,” he said.

February 13City okays cull of fifty

urban deerCranbrook city council approved

a 50 deer cull that would take place in the next few weeks. The city’s cull permit expired March 15, 2015.

February 17Union, CPR enter binding

arbitration to end strikeAfter announcing strike action

against Canadian Pacific Railway on Sunday, the Teamsters entered into binding arbitration with the Crown corporation on Monday afternoon. Members of the Teamsters Division 563 gathered at a railway crossing at Van Horne St. S and King St. in Cran-brook on Monday morning before the two sides entered into arbitra-tion.

February 19Council cans plan to

borrow to fix old fire hallAt the budget meeting on Feb. 17,

Cranbrook city council voted to re-move a plan to borrow $500,000 to retrofit Firehall No. 1. The item was a part of the schedule of capital ex-penditures. When the item of busi-ness came up Mayor Lee Pratt asked that the item be removed. The funds were planned to be used to repair the building so that it could be used in the future.

February 20Lawyers lobbying for

full-time judgeWith the looming retirement of

Justice Tom Melnick, the Kootenay Bar Association was concerned with getting access to a judge to hear court cases. Andrew Mayes, presi-dent of the Kootenay Bar Associa-tion at the time, said the Bar had been lobbying the chief justice in B.C. to replace Justice Melnick when he retired.

At the present, Melnick was only working half-time to complete a re-port for the Electoral Boundaries Commission before full retirement

and was not sitting for any jury trials.When Melnick fully retires, local

lawyers feared that will impact the amount of judge time in Cranbrook Supreme Court, which will have a resulting effect on cases.

February 25Idlewild dam to be decommissioned

At the regular council meeting on Feb. 23, Mayor Lee Pratt said that over the course of an in-camera ses-sion prior to the regular meeting, council had come to the decision. “We had a closed meeting before council and what came out of that is council has decided to decommis-sion the Idlewild Dam,” Pratt said. “Basically what that means is that we’re going to draw the water out.”

February 26Heid-Out makes Canada’s

Top 11 Must Visit listIn what shouldn’t be a surprise to

anyone in Cranbrook or Kimberley, the Heidout Restaurant and Brew-house was recently noticed by the Food Network in a list of the top brewpubs in Canada. The Heidout joins a list of 10 other brewpubs across the country from larger cities, such as the Big Rock Brewery in Cal-gary and the Canoe Brew Pub in Victoria.

March 2Other fire starts found in area of

suspicious fireA home in the Northwood Es-

tate—above the Kinsmen Quad Ball Park—burned down the morning of Feb. 27 in a fire that police deter-mined was deliberately set. RCMP received the call at 5:30 a.m. and Fire and Emergency Services re-sponded, removing four occupants from the balcony at the rear of the structure. With up to 16 firefighters and equipment working on the blaze, the fire was contained to the house of origin. During the on-scene investigation, police deter-mined that there were multiple, other suspicious fire starts in the same residential area near the scene of the house fire that were deliber-ately set.

March 3Kimberley skier killed

in avalancheA backcountry skier from Kim-

berley died as a result of an ava-lanche in the Meachan Creek area

on Feb 28. Three experienced back country skiers were ascending Snow Crest Mountain when the incident occurred. They had skied up and were walking along a ridge when it gave way; the male fell approximate-ly 700 metres and was initially re-ported missing by the other two.

March 4Back in the ring

Former Cranbrook mayor and longtime public servant Wayne Stetski announced his intention to run for Member of Parliament for the NDP in the riding of Kootenay Columbia.

March 5Shelby Schiller wins

Stone Soup ChallengeShelby Schiller reached back into

her childhood to win the Kootenay Granite Stone Soup Challenge. A chef at BJ’s Restaurant and Creekside Pub in Kimberley, Schiller made a tomato beef soup that had been in the family since she was a little girl.

March 6Local man receives

Medal of BraveryOn this day, at Rideau Hall in

Ottawa, David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, presented a Medal of Bravery to Mr. Peter Rich-ard Moody. Moody was nominated for the award by his son and re-ceived it in recognition of his actions on November 25, 2012, when he and wife, Susan Bond, were attacked by a grizzly bear.

March 9Cull called off after traps

vandalizedThe deer cull was put on hold

indefinitely in Cranbrook after four provincially-owned clover traps were vandalized overnight Thurs-day. Around 5:30 a.m. on the morn-ing of March 6, City contractors making their early morning rounds discovered the four traps had the netting slashed making them unus-able. All of the traps were located on private property. The RCMP was immediately notified and an investi-gation was underway.

March 10RCMP arrest four in home

invasionTwo males and one female were

arrested after a home invasion early Monday morning. Three subjects forced their way into a home on

King Street in Cranbrook around 2 am. Inside they assaulted a female and stole jewelry and a laptop. With-in a short time, RCMP arrested the four subjects. Three of the subjects were from Cranbrook and were al-legedly involved in the Cranbrook incident. A fourth subject from Kim-berley was also arrested.

March 16City crews scramble on sinkhole

SundayFour City of Cranbrook Public

Works water crews were actively working to restore water service to approximately 100 residences on the afternoon of March 15 after a failure in a pressure reducing station overnight. The failure was believed to have caused up to eight water main breaks across the City.

March 17Court says 12 years for LearnA Cranbrook man convicted of

second-degree murder December, 2014, will not be eligible for parole for another five years, ruled a judge in Cranbrook Supreme Court on March 16. Cheyenne Learn, who was found guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Tammy Ellis, was in court for a hear-ing on parole eligibility. Justice Dev Dley, who presided over the trial, ruled that Learn, who received an automatic life sentence upon his conviction, won’t be eligible for pa-role for 12 years since he was taken into custody.

March 18Local curlers win B.C. title

Winning a provincial champion-ship is difficult. Imagine doing it twice in a row. That’s what a curling team with members from Cran-brook and the surrounding region did, repeating as Masters champi-ons at a tournament in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. The team, featur-ing Gerry Kent and Peter Sweetman of Cranbrook, along with Ralph Will of Fernie and Laddie Pavlis of Cres-ton, played a near perfect round-rob-in and came out on top of a wild final to win the gold.

March 24Target shuts down

Target’s time in Cranbrook was of-ficially over.

The department store closed it’s doors on March 22 after the U.S.-based company announced the clo-sure of all Canadian locations back in January. The company had been in operation for less than two years after expanding across the U.S.-Can-ada border in 2013.

March 25Arts council pitches fire hall plan to City

The Cranbrook and District Art Council outlined its proposal for a gallery at the old fire hall at the March 23 city council meeting. Sio-ban Staplin, current president, said the arts council’s plan is to repur-pose the fire hall into a “vibrant arts and culture centre that would en-rich the lives of the citizens of Cran-brook.”

March 27 Two-tier leisure fees end April 1

The new leisure services fee structure would take effect on April 1. Council passed a resolution earli-er this month to eliminate the two-tier system and if it is adopted on March 31, the new fee structure will begin on the first of April.

2015 in review: Select top stories of the yearContinued from page 1

On March 6, 2015, at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada (right), presented a Medal of Bravery to Mr. Peter Richard Moody. Moody was nominated for the award by his son and received it in recognition of his actions on November 25, 2012, when he and wife, Susan Bond, were attacked by a grizzly bear.

PAGE 4 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2015

If historical ingratitude were a crime, most of the people writing year-end pieces this month would be in jail.

This year was not like 1919, when 3 per-cent of the world’s population died of in-fluenza, or 1943, when the Second World War was killing a million people each month, or 1983, when we came very close to World War Three (though the public didn’t realise it at the time). For most peo-ple, in most places, 2015 has been a pretty good year.

Yes, of course, the war in Syria, and millions of refu-gees, and the downturn in China dragging the world economy down with it, and terrorism here, there and ev-erywhere. And of course, cli-mate change waiting around the corner to drag us all down. But if you are waiting for a year with nothing to worry about, you’ll be waiting a long time.

The war in Syria is four years old and still going strong. In late summer it looked for a time as if the Islamist rebels were going to destroy the Syrian army and take over the whole country, but the Russian intervention restored the stalemate. There is even talk of a ceasefire now, so that ev-erybody else can concentrate on fighting Islamic State.

That may not happen, because Turkey and Saudi Arabia are both determined to destroy the Assad regime at any cost. The Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham (clones of Islamic State who make up the bulk of what American propaganda portrays as “the moderates”) may not agree to a cease-fire either. The war could go on for years yet. But unless Islamic State and the other jihadis actually win, the war will not spread beyond Syria’s borders

There are other wars in the Middle East too, in Iraq (where Islamic State also holds much territory), in Afghanistan (where the Taliban are winning), and in Yemen (where the conservative Arab states have mistaken a tribal quarrel for an Iranian plot and launched a bombing campaign to thwart it). Libya’s internal wars are getting worse,

and there is even talk of renewed Western military intervention there.

Oh, and Turkey has relaunched its war against the Kurds. The Middle East is a full-spectrum mess, and the particular brand of Islamist extremism that has taken root there has expanded out of the region to produce terrorist attacks from India to Kenya to France, and even the United States. But the terrorism is not as big as it seems, and neither is the Middle East.

The Middle East only contains 10 percent of the world’s people, and the Arab world (where most of the bloodshed happens) is only half of the Middle East. Its only major export is oil, and its main import is food. What happens

there is not as important as what happens in the other 90 percent of the world, which is by and large at peace and doing quite well.

There are no wars at all in Asia, which is home to half the human race, and no wars in the Americas either. There is one war in Europe, in eastern Ukraine with heavy Russian involvement, but a ceasefire has greatly reduced (but not entirely stopped) the shooting in the past four months.

The only real war in Africa this year was in South Sudan, now suspended at least temporarily, although there are half-a dozen other countries where there is a sig-nificant level of civil or terrorist violence (Nigeria, Somalia, Mali, Sudan, Kenya, etc.). Forty of the fifty African countries are entirely at peace, and most of them are at least partly democratic.

This is not a picture of world where vio-lence is out of control. The violence is ap-proaching catastrophic levels in parts of the Middle East, but the scattered inci-dents of Islamist terrorism against non-Muslims elsewhere are relatively small and few in number. Neverheless, they have encouraged the Western media (and several Western leaders) to talk about terrorism as an “existential threat”.

That is absurd, but Donald Trump, the

leading candidate for the Republican par-ty’s nomination for US president, has pro-posed that the the United States should deal with this “threat” by stopping all Mus-lims from entering the country. The num-ber of non-Middle Eastern people who actually died in terrorist attacks in 2015, including the two Paris attacks, the Los Angeles attack, and attacks on tourists in Muslim countries (mostly British in Tuni-sia and Russians in Egypt) was just over 400.

The total population of Russia, the Unit-ed States, Britain and France is about 600 million, so the risk of being killed by an Is-lamist terrorist, if you are a citizen of one of those countries, is one in one-and-a-half million. It is not a crisis. It is just a problem, and fairly far down the list of problems these countries face.

The refugees coming out of the Middle East, mainly from Syria, are a much bigger issue, but the main burden of caring for them has fallen on neighbouring Muslim countries, principally Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. About one million refugees have reached Europe this year, sparking a political panic in the European Union (population 500 million), but the extraor-dinary generosity of Germany, which has taken in four-fifths of those refugees, more than compensates for the meaner be-haviour of other Western countries.

Enough on the Middle East – except for the quote of the year, from Edward Lutt-wak, the celebrated freelance “defence in-tellectual” and self-styled “grand strate-gist” who sells his advice to presidents and generals. “You know, I never gave George W. Bush enough credit for what he’s done in the Middle East … He ignited a religious war between Shiites and Sunnis that will occupy the region for the next thousand years. It was a pure stroke of brilliance.” Unwitting brilliance, of course, and it won’t be a thousand years or even a hun-dred, but there is an element of truth in that.

Gwynne Dyer’s 2015 Year Ender continues in Thursday’s Townsman/Bulletin

The World in 2015: Part I

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ONGOINGNoon every Wednesday, downtown United Church & Centre for Peace, the bells will call you to a time of calm. This is NOT church, rather it is a time to gather in a circle in a welcoming and harmonious space to practice the way of Taize. Wouldn’t you cherish a time to stop? to gather when the bells ring? to join with others in silence, in prayer, in meditative song?Cantebelles, an all-female singing group, meets Mondays 7-9pm. Join us and learn how to sing with 2, 3 and 4part harmonies. Contact: Sue Trombley, 250-426-0808 or suetrombley53@gmail.comMasonic Lodges of B.C. and Yukon will supply transportation to cancer patients who have arrived at Kelowna or Vancouver. This free service will be at the destination point. Example: from airport to clinic and clinic to airport on return, also around the destination city. Info may be received from your doctor, Canadian Cancer Society, or by phoning Ron at 250-426-8159.MILITARY AMES is a social/camaraderie/support group that meets the � rst and third Tuesdays of the month in the Kimberley Public Library reading room. All veterans are welcome. For more information call Cindy @ 250 919 3137.Canadian Cancer Society- if you have spare time and would like to volunteer, interested applicants can call 250-426-8916, drop by our o� ce at #19-9th Avenue S, Cranbrook or go to www.cancervolunteer.ca and register as a volunteer.Mark Creek Lions meet 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at the Kimbrook. Meet & Greet from 6:00-6:30pm, supper 6:30-7:00, meeting 7:00-8:00pm. Contact 250-427-5612 or 250-427-7496. New members welcome – men and ladies! The Cellar Thrift Store Open Mon. to Sat., noon to 4:30 p.m. Our revenues support local programs and outreach programs of Cranbrook United Church. Baker Lane Entry at 2 – 12th Ave. S. Cranbrook, B. C. Donations of new or gently used items welcome.The Cranbrook Quilter’s Guild meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month, September - June, 7.15 p.m. at the Cranbrook Senior Citizens Hall, 125-17th Ave South. Interested??? Call Jennifer at 250-426-6045. We’re on Facebook and www.cranbrookquiltersguild.ca.Quilters meet in Kimberley on the 2nd Monday at Centennial Hall at 7:00 PM and the 4th Monday for sewing sessions in the United Church Hall at 10 Boundary Street.Hey Kimberley! We need you as Big Brothers and Big Sisters. One hour a week. YOU can make a di� erence in a Child’s life that will last a life time. Info: 250-499-3111.Cranbrook Community Tennis Association welcomes all citizens to play or learn to play. Call Neil 250-489-8107, Cathy 250-464-1903.Enjoy Painting? Join ArtGroup 75, Fridays 1pm-4pm, Sept. - June. Seniors Hall, Cranbrook. 125. 17th Ave. S.Cranbrook Phoenix Toastmasters meet every Thursday, noon -1:00 Heritage Inn. Toastmasters teaches communication & leadership skills. Roberta 250-489-0174. 1911.toastmastersclubs.org.Cranbrook Writer’s Group meet on the 4th Monday of the month at the Arts Council. Engage in writing exercises, constructive critiques & share in information on upcoming literary events & contests. Cbk and District Arts Council, 104, 135-10th Ave S, CBK. info: 250-426-4223 www.cranbrookanddistrictartscouncil.comRoyal Canadian Legion Branch 24; Friday Meat Draw: 4:30-6:30, Saturday Meat Draw: 3:30-5:30. BINGO at the Kimberley Elks – Mondays, 6:30 start. All welcome.

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thanks to evolutionI just wanted to write this letter to express my gratitude public-

ly to Master Simon Wachon and everyone at Evolution Martial Arts for all they have done for us in the last year and a half. When I closed down my gym, Rocky Mountain Academy of Martial Arts, it was a devastating loss for me and the community that was cre-ated around the gym. We would have had no home if not for Mas-ter Simon inviting us to share his space.

I was hesitant at first, but it did not take long to realize that we were now part of another community. Two communities came together and worked in harmony. I and my students always felt welcome and part of the Evolution family. We became a new en-tity, Huncar’s Warrior Arts and we managed to continue to put out quality Muay Thai fighters (Nak Muay) and Eskrimadors. We con-tinued teaching techniques of personal protection and we contin-ued to grow. All of this would not have been possible without a home. A home that Master Simon graciously welcomed us into.

Now we are getting a new home with the opening of Rocky Mountain Martial Arts Family Centre. Our own place, thanks to the support of our community and the support of Master Simon Wachon. Even though we are now in our own space I only hope that the future will enable us to maintain close ties to Evolution Martial Arts and Master Simon. Thank you so much for all you have done for us.

Joel HuncarHuncar’s Warrior Arts

Cranbrook

snow removalIt seems that snow removal is an issue of some sort every year.

I appreciate that navigating through the snow is not easy, but hey…we live in the mountains! In fact, pretty much everyone is happy when we get about 6 meters of snow because it drives our economy in the winter. So it is important for us all to have some patience. City staff does a great job of clearing our roads. And they are always under pressure to get to every street and every intersec-tion – first. Those who have recently moved to Kimberley from Calgary or Edmonton know just how good our clearing is.

It is City policy to have the entire community cleared in four days. There is a priority list that staff follows which takes into ac-count the equipment we have available and our best guess at moving from the most urgent streets to the least urgent. If staff

follows that priority list the majority of people will be happy most of the time. It is not perfect, and equipment does break down, which is where the patience part comes in. Please also remember that if it snows heavily half way through clearing, we start at the beginning again.

We publish the snow removal plan, including the priority list. We welcome feedback and suggestions. This is not a new plan, but one that has been improved incrementally over the years. With your feedback and suggestions we can improve it further.

Please see http://kimberley.ca/services/snow-removal-infor-mation-faqs for lots of information about snow clearing and a link to the actual plan.

Don McCormick Mayor, Kimberley

Unhelpful commentsI would like to respond to Joyce Green’s misleading article re-

garding the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.In my view, the plight of our Aboriginal people is one of the

most pressing problems facing our country and needs to be dealt with urgently, but I must take exception with a couple of things she has said.

Firstly, she refers to the situation as ‘genocide’.  Now, the dictio-nary definition of genocide is “The systemic extermination or destruction of an entire people or national group.”

I hardly think is even close to describing what we are dealing with.

In fact, if you look at the report itself, it uses the term or phase ‘cultural genocide’, which completely changes the context and fits the situation.

Why she would remove this qualifying adverb is beyond me.  Perhaps it is to further her own personal agenda.

Our new age society has a tendency these days to use words that greatly exaggerate and change meanings.

Secondly, she refers to the rest of us as ‘settlers’ and this of-fends me greatly.  As far as I can tell, I am at least a 4th generation Canadian, which makes my granddaughter a 6th generation. I hardly think this makes us settlers.

These comments from the academic elite are not helpful.

Neil MathesonCranbrook

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Canadian PressBritish Columbia’s largest emergency

dispatch and 911 call centre has put togeth-er a top 10 list for 2015 - and you don’t want to be on it.

E-Comm, which handles emergency calls for 24 B.C. cities, towns and districts while dispatching 33 police and fire depart-ments, has released the 10 most outrageous calls received by staff this year.

These ranged from requests to fish a basketball out of a tree to complaints of one roommate using another’s toothbrush.

An exasperated parent even called to re-port her son would not put on his seatbelt.

But E-Comm spokesperson Jody Robert-son says the most frivolous 911 call came from a man who wanted the phone number for a local tire dealership.

Almost 3,400 calls flow through E-Comm every day and Robertson hopes this year’s top 10 list of bad calls spreads the message

that 911 dispatchers must focus on emer-gencies and can’t take time to manage situ-ations that don’t immediately threaten lives or property.

“My job is to treat every call as an emer-gency, no matter how illogical it may seem on the surface,” says E-Comm 9-1-1 call-tak-er Harrison Kwan, recipient of this year’s top nuisance call. “We are trained to ask questions in case a caller is in distress and can’t speak freely. It’s only when I’m com-pletely satisfied that the call is not a real emergency that I can disconnect and go back to answering other 9-1-1 calls. And that takes time.”

2015 top reasons to not call 9-1-1:1. Requesting the number for a local tire

dealership2. Reporting an issue with a vending ma-

chine3. Asking for the non-emergency line4. Because a car is parked too close to

theirs5. “My son won’t put his seatbelt on”6. Coffee shop is refusing to refill coffee7. Asking if it’s okay to park on the street8. “My roommate used my toothbrush”9. Asking for help getting a basketball out

of a tree10. Reporting that their building’s air

system is too loud and they can’t sleep“We hope that our message that 9-1-1

call-takers can’t answer questions or man-age non-emergency situations on 9-1-1 lifelines will encourage people to learn more about 9-1-1,” adds Robertson. “There’s lots of information on our web site—ecomm911.ca—about when to use 9-1-1 and when to use non-emergency numbers for police, fire and ambulance, along with easy access to those numbers and free education materials available for order, including learning tools for chil-dren.”

E-Comm releases 2015’s top 10 list of reasons not to telephone 911

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“I delivered an intoxicated friend to an address he gave me only to find out the next day that he didn’t live there. The residents looked after him and I drove him to his actual home the next day.”

“Many years ago in Prince George I was [doing a ridealong

with the] RCMP. We were parked outside a bar. A person came out of the bar, opened the rear passenger door and sat down. Believing they were in a taxi, they gave their address. The officer noticed the address was close so he drove him home. When he tried to pay, the officer gave them his business card and said, “Tonight’s ride is on us – thanks for calling a cab.” I guess in this case the RCMP was the designated driver and I have

On New Year’s Eve, an average of two people are killed and 200 are injured in more than 600 crashes

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no doubt the next day many questions about the trip home must have been going through the passen-ger’s mind when he saw the police card.”

“I was designated driver for my brother-in-law in Belgium this summer. I got to drive his Mercedes CLS 320. If only I had more friends with high-end or exotic cars. Anyone with a Porsche Turbo need a driver?”

“Listening to my friends sing ‘Don’t Cry For Me Argentina’ over and over again.”

“I was driving some-one home and he was giving me directions. When we arrived, he got out and was met at the door by a woman who refused to let him in. Turns out, they had been divorced for two months and in his drunken condition, he forgot he no longer lived there.”

“My wife’s 20-year reunion. Some of the occupants thought they were in a taxi and tried to pay me.”

“I was the designat-ed driver for 12 ladies celebrating a birthday. I rented a van and drove them to several bars. I was surrounded by all these beauti-ful women and they would only dance with me… I never had a better night in all of my single life.”

*Based on five year average. Crashes and injured vic-tims from ICBC data (2009 to 2013); fatal victims from police data (2009 to 2013).

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MADD Canada vol-unteers will be out in force over the coming weeks to distribute millions of red ribbons to Canadians as a re-minder to drive sober during the upcoming holiday season.

MADD Canada’s 28th annual Project Red Ribbon campaign runs from November 1 to January 4. With plenty of parties and celebrations taking place over the holiday season, and with many people travelling to see family and friends, the risk of impaired driving is high. The red ribbon is a symbol of the wearers’ commit-ment to sober driving, and a tribute to the thousands of Cana-dians who are killed and injured in impair-ment-related crashes each year.

“We’re asking Canadi-ans to join in and show their commitment to sober driving. Get a red ribbon, then tie it, wear it, show it, share it, and live it,” said MADD Canada National President Angeliki Souranis, who lost her son, Craig, in an impairment-related crash in 2008. “Let’s keep sharing the mes-sage and promoting the need for everyone to plan ahead for a so-ber ride home if they’re going to be drinking.”

Together with Title Sponsor, Allstate Insurance Compa-ny of Canada, other sponsors and many road safety and police partners around the

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• Plan ahead when you know you’ll be drinking. Take a cab or bus, arrange a designated driver or plan to stay over.

• Never drive im-paired or ride with an impaired driver.

• If you see a driv-er you suspect is impaired, call 911 to report it to police. The call you make could save a life.

Red ribbons are available through the MADD Canada web site, Chapters and Community Leaders, Allstate Canada offices across the country and participating sponsor outlets. For more information, please see the Project Red Ribbon page on the MADD Canada web site at madd.ca. Watch for the red ribbon on social me-dia as well, as MADD

Canada encourages volunteers, members, supporters and the general public to share photos of their red ribbons with online friends and followers using #projectredrib-bon.

This year’s Project Red Ribbon campaign features two unique highlights. First, is the debut of MADD Canada’s new public service announce-ment specifically geared towards Project Red Ribbon and the holiday season. It will begin airing on televi-sion in November and December. Second, is the very public show of support from three of Canada’s best known landmarks. On the evening of Novem-ber 4, Calgary Tower, the CN Tower and Ni-agara Falls was lit red in support of Project Red Ribbon and the promotion of sober driving throughout the holiday season.

Returning as Title Sponsor of Project Red Ribbon for the 2015

campaign is Allstate Insurance Company of Canada. Allstate Canada’s generous support of Project Red Ribbon dates back 28 years, to the very first campaign.

“Project Red Ribbon is very special to every-one here,” said Allstate Canada President and Chief Executive Officer John O’Don-nell. “Every year, our agents and staff look forward to working with MADD Canada volunteers in an effort to spread this very important message. We are proud to be part of this program that helps make our roads safer, during the holiday season and all year long.”

Whether you need a safe ride home from a party or bar this holiday season, or if you’re hosting a party and need to arrange transportation for your guests, MADD Canada sponsor #TAXI offers a fast and easy option. Dial #TAXI (# 8-2-9-4) on any cell

phone to connect to the first available taxi company or your taxi company of choice. For more informa-tion, visit http://www.poundtaxi.com/.

Those who wish to support Project Red Ribbon financially can donate through MADD Canada’s web site. A text donation option is also available for cell phone users; simply text “MADD” to 45678 to donate $5. The one-time dona-tion is added to the user’s cell phone bill.

MADD Canada thanks its national 2015 Project Red Ribbon sponsors for their gen-erous support: Allstate Insurance Company of Canada, Irving Oil, #TAXI, BMO Financial Group, McLeod Safety and RTL Westcan Group of Companies.

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Angeliki Souranis, National President, MADD Canada, 514-515-6233 or asoura-nis@madd.ca

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Within your immediate circle lie many positive changes, yet you might feel as if you can’t handle them all. Recognize the posi-tive vibes you’re receiving from others. You will be OK, as long as you can transform certain rigid viewpoints. Tonight: Know when to vanish. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You will have the unique op-portunity of seeing a friend’s transformation occur. Reach out to this person and make a kind gesture, despite the fact that it isn’t natural to you to be some-one else’s cheerleader. Embrace the role for now. Tonight: Meet up with friends and hang out. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You’ll feel as if someone really cares. This person has a way of letting this be known, which makes you smile. It could be just a simple expression of support, but that seems to make all the difference. Use caution with your finances. Tonight: In the limelight. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Reach out to someone at a

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Cranbrook area preferred.

Call Steve at:

250-919-0393 References available.

IN NEED OF A BOOKKEEPER? I have over 15 years

experience doing books for various companies in the

East Kootenays. I can take your company from start-up

to year-end prep. Contact Melissa at

~ 250-581-1328 ~

LEIMAN

CUSTOM HOMES AND RENOVATIONS

Established custom builder for over 30

years.

Certifi ed Journeyman Carpenters

Reliable QuotesMember of the new

home warranty program.

www.leimanhomes.ca

Kevin250-421-0110

Krister250-919-1777

PLAN DESIGNNew construction,

Additions, Renovations, Electrical, Landscape

Start with a good set of plans and be assured your investment will

FEEL, FUNCTION and LOOK GREAT!

Jody ~ 250-919-1575www.CHARLTONHOMES.CA

TIP TOP CHIMNEYSERVICES

“Sweeping the Kootenay’s Clean”

Chimney SweepingFireplace & Woodstove

ServicingVisual Inspections and

InstallationsGutter Cleaning Available

Call for Free Estimatefrom a W.E.T.T Certifi ed

Technician

Richard Hedrich250-919-3643

tiptopchimneys@gmail.com

~also available~Pool table installation

and service!!!

TRIPLE J WINDOW CLEANING

“Enjoy your winter with clear windows.”

This service is available

ALL winter!!

For a brighter outlook, call Jim Detta

250-349-7546

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New Year’s Eve

Torchlight Ski7:00 - 10:00 pm

Kimberley NordicCome and enjoy our 3km loop,

lit only with torches and candles!

Appies, treats and hot beverages will be available!

Presented by: Kimberley Nordic Club and KiXS.

Admission by donation, with proceeds going to support KiXS.

Kimberley Nordic Club

Cranbrook • Fernie • Kimberley • Invermere

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Library disPLayThe display at the

Cranbrook Public Li-brary for the month of December is a beauti-ful array of nativity scenes

Wednesday, dec. 30

FLush Out the carOLs

Flush out the car-ols! Wednesday, Dec. 30, at 7 pm, A Ragtime Revival - lively pianist Arne Sahlen at Kim-berley United Church, 10 Boundary St. near Centennial Hall. Lead-up to Kootenay Rag-time Festival mid-2017. Famous and original rags, history bits, and more. By do-nation.  250-427-2159, ph/text 250-540-4242, arnesahlen@hotmail.com

neW year’s Week at kar

Dec. 30 — James Neve at the Stemwind-er, 3 p.m. Plus family barbecue, snowflake hunt and night skiing.

Dec. 31 Live music at Kootenay Haus with Brian Wright at noon. High as the Mountains live at the Stemwinder beginning at 3 pm. Night skiing. New Year’s Eve family party in the Platzl at 7 p.m. New Year’s Eve at the Stemwinder at 9 p.m.

saturday, Jan. 2

best OF banFFBanff Mountain

Film Festival World Tour. Sponsored by Wildsight at Key City Theatre. Saturday, Jan-uary 2 at 7:30 pm. Tick-ets $30 online or at Key City Theatre box office. New reserved seating.

Fisher Peak Winter aLe

cOncert serieskey city theatre

smaLL stage

Key City Theatre has joined with Fisher Peak Performing Artists So-ciety and Fisher Peak Brewing Company to bring you the Fisher Peak Winter Ale Con-cert Series. Five Great Performances at one low price! Fine music, Fine Ale & Fine Friends! Featured Artists: Holly & Jon (Jan. 10), Amy Thiessen (Feb. 17), Red Girl (March 5), Small Glories (April 14) and

Brian Brons & His Band of Brothers (May 12).

Series Tickets on Sale Now!

The perfect gift! Buy online at www.keyci-tytheatre.com or call 250-426-7006 Series Ticket $119 or $99 for Key City Theatre and Fisher Peak Perform-ing Artists Society Members.

thursday, Jan. 7 rOckies FiLm Fest

99 hOmesDon’t forget to buy

tickets for the January 7th movie, “99 Homes.” Tickets are moving quickly and our last two movies were sell-outs so don’t miss your chance. Thank you to CIAO Tours for their sponsorship of 99 Homes!

Gold passes for the Festival are now on sale at Lotus Books for $80 until December 31st, 2015 saving you $16. As of January 1st, 2016 the Gold Passes will be $90 so get your passes early! These passes give you the op-portunity to purchase your festival tickets when the Festival films are announced. We heard your voice and will try something new this year for the Festi-val. It seems that 4 movies on Saturday were difficult for peo-ple to endure. So, we have scheduled an extra day into the Festi-val to accommodate this request. We will be

showing 2 movies per night with no matinee scheduled for Satur-day.

Jan. 14-16, 21-23crimes OF the

heart key city theatre

Crimes of the Heart is a “dark comedy” written in 1979 and made its Broadway debut in 1980. Very funny, and at the same time heart-warming, this play provides a full evening’s entertain-ment. The Cranbrook production brings a number of new faces to the local theatre scene. New to our audience, and all delivering fine, insightful, energetic performances. The production has been in rehearsal since early October and will be ready to hit the stage early in the new-year. Tickets are $20. Tickets are available at the Key City Theatre Box Office 250-426-7006 and On-line at www.keyci-tytheatre.com.

Jan. 15cat On a hOt tin

rOOFCranbrook Commu-

nity Theatre (CCT) brings Tennessee Wil-liams’ Pulitzer Prize winning play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” to the Stage Door Theatre in January 2016. First pre-sented in 1955, the themes of this play cannot be tied to any

Time to ring in the New Year and see what January bringsera. It’s a sprawling, high-energy tale that fits somewhere be-tween “Dallas” and Shakespeare. The audi-ence will join the Pol-litt family as they cele-brate Big Daddy’s 65th birthday. Set in the bedroom of Big Dad-dy’s troubled son Brick and his wife Maggie, family members clash over their futures, face truths, and tackle the question of who de-serves to take hold of the largest plantation in the Delta.

This is a rich story, with complex charac-ters and requires a highly skilled group to make the best of it.

“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ” runs for 10 nights; January 15 & 16, January 20-23 and 27-30, 2016 at the Studio/Stage Door, 11-11th Ave South, Cranbrook. Tickets are available at Lotus Books. All per-formances at 8 p.m.

thursday, Jan. 21aL Purdy Was

here“Al Purdy was Here”

will be our fourth film in our series. Rotten Tomatoes says, “this documentary profiles Canadian poet Al Purdy, who first came to prominence in the 1960s with a style of writing that attempted to capture the tenor of modern life. The film includes archival foot-age of Purdy from tele-vision appearances, as

well as interviews with friends, colleagues, and fellow artists. Di-rected by Brian D. Johnson, Al Purdy Was Here made its world premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.”

Buy your tickets at Lotus Books starting right now!

The perfect gift! Buy online at www.keyci-tytheatre.com or call 250-426-7006 Series Ticket $119 or $99 for Key City Theatre and Fisher Peak Perform-ing Artists Society Members.

Jan. 14-16, 21-23crimes OF the

heart key city theatre

Crimes of the Heart is a “dark comedy” written in 1979 and made its Broadway debut in 1980.  Very funny, and at the same time heart-warming, this play provides a full evening’s entertain-ment.  The Cranbrook production brings a number of new faces to the local theatre scene.  New to our audience, and all delivering fine, insightful, energetic performances.  The production has been in rehearsal since early October and will be ready to hit the stage early in the new-year. Tickets are $20. Tickets are available at the Key City Theatre Box Office 250-426-7006 and On-line at www.keyci-tytheatre.com

KAR photo

Santa was spotted at KAR on a fat-tired bike over the holidays. Lots of other surprises are planned for New Years.