WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 25, 20 15 Saturday, February 28th 10am - 1pm in the Ktunaxa Gym 220 Cranbrook St. N. www.cranbrookfarmersmarket.com INDOOR MARKET THE BULLETIN $ 1 10 INCLUDES G.S.T. TownsmanBulletin Like Us @kbulletin Follow Us ANALYSIS NO EASY ALTERNATIVE TO CULL See LOCAL NEWS page 3 CONCERT IRISH ROVERS AT KEY CITY See LOCAL NEWS page 12 PROUDLY SERVING KIMBERLEY AND AREA SINCE 1932 | Vol. 83, Issue 38 | www.dailybulletin.ca PHOTO CONTRIBUTED The Kimberley PeeWee Tier 4 Dynamiters hosted the Elk Valley Wild and the Cranbrook H&R Kings in the East Kootenay league A division final this past weekend. In some very close round robin action Cranbrook and Elk Valley drew to a 5-5 tie while Kimberley pulled out a 8-7 come from behind win against Cranbrook and drew to a 3-3 tie against the Wild. Elk Valley and Kimberley moved on and played a hard fought final with your Kimberley Dynamiters coming out on top with a 6-4 win to claim the East Kootenay PeeWee Tier 4 “A” banner chamionship. The PeeWee Dynamiters are now focusing their preparations on hosting the BC Hockey PeeWee Tier 4 Provincial Championships March 14 to 19 2015. Five other peewee teams from around the province will be travelling to and staying in Kimberley for a week as they battle it out to become BC Hockey champions. Be sure to catch some of the action or if you are interested in becoming a volunteer for the championships contact Mike Reid at [email protected] Coach Shane Murray, AC’s Mike Reid, Fraser Armstrong, and Trainer Shawn VanZyl. Players Cameron Reid, Daxton D’Etcheverrey, Sam Daprocida, Kasey Miller, Tyden Wilson, Leith Olafson, Aspen Cooper, Ryan Renaud, Avery Burki, Brayden Hoglund, Mark VanZyl, Zoe Callwood, Ally Murray, Chase Flegl, Declan Armstrong, Ben Verigin and AP’s Brad Traverse and Justin Sommer. Fibre optic network has arrived CAROLYN GRANT Bulletin Editor The City of Kimberley and Telus are pleased to announce that fibre optic technology is finally coming to town. Kimberley residents will have Telus representatives knocking on their doors beginning this week, asking permission to bring fibre to their residence. Kimberley is the second East Kootenay community to get fibre optics, the first being Creston. This is big for Kimberley, says Mayor Don McCormick. “What this means is that Kim- berley is now part of a handful of rural communities who can boast the same high speed internet con- nection as downtown Vancouver. It creates a competitive advantage. Now people can combine lifestyle and business advantages. “Kimberley is now a serious contender for all kinds of business attraction. It’s a pretty big an- nouncement for us.” Telus hopes to be able to cover 90 per cent of Kimberley with fibre optic service, only excluding areas where there are access issues. The budget process rolls on CAROLYN GRANT Bulletin Editor Kimberley’s Mayor, Council and staff have been grinding through the arduous budget process for a couple of months now, trying to find new savings and ways to limit property tax increases. “A four per cent increase for homeowners and three per cent increase for business taxes was built into the financial plan last year,” McCormick said. “The diffi- culty I have with that is that by building in that four per cent in- crease, basically it means you are over spending. You are spending money you have not yet collected.” We are endeavouring to get away from that.” Ideally, the tax increase should be zero, the Mayor says. Getting to that ideal is not going to be easy, even with savings found within the operational budget. “Right now the cost of living is increasing. The city has its own COLA and it’s three percent,” Mc- Cormick said. “It’s not just inflation but contractual commitments. The union wage increase is 2.5 per cent this year. So to et to zero we need three per cent in cuts to the bud- get.” McCormick says that over the last several months, an internal service review has been conduct- ed. “We managed to cut $130,000 off expenditures. That’s about 1.5 per cent. We continue to look for additional ways to cut expenses.” Non-profit groups, who regular- ly appeal to the city for assistance are still being considered. McCor- mick says that Councillors Good- win and Roberts are in the process of drafting a policy on how to ap- proach these annual grant applica- tions. A part of that is looking at best practices from other municipali- ties. Fast internet and Optik TV now available Mayor Don McCormick See FIBRE , Page 3 See BUDGET , Page 4 Doing Kimberley proud CAROLYN GRANT Bulletin Editor Great news out of Prince George late yesterday — Kimberley’s Colin Ferrie took gold at the Canada Games in the 1.5 Classic Sprint, cross-country ski race. We will have much more on the race in Thurs- day’s Bulletin. Also on Tuesday, 13-year old Molly Miller, racing against skiers five years and older than her, placed nine in the Women’s Classic Sprint.
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WEDNESDAYFEBRUARY 25, 2015
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PROUDLY SERVING KIMBERLEY AND AREA SINCE 1932 | Vol. 83, Issue 38 | www.dailybulletin.ca
PHOTO CONTRIBUTED
The Kimberley PeeWee Tier 4 Dynamiters hosted the Elk Valley Wild and the Cranbrook H&R Kings in the East Kootenay league A division final this past weekend. In some very close round robin action Cranbrook and Elk Valley drew to a 5-5 tie while Kimberley pulled out a 8-7 come from behind win against Cranbrook and drew to a 3-3 tie against the Wild. Elk Valley and Kimberley moved on and played a hard fought final with your Kimberley Dynamiters coming out on top with a 6-4 win to claim the East Kootenay PeeWee Tier 4 “A” banner chamionship. The PeeWee Dynamiters are now focusing their preparations on hosting the BC Hockey PeeWee Tier 4 Provincial Championships March 14 to 19 2015. Five other peewee teams from around the province will be travelling to and staying in Kimberley for a week as they battle it out to become BC Hockey champions. Be sure to catch some of the action or if you are interested in becoming a volunteer for the championships contact Mike Reid at [email protected] Coach Shane Murray, AC’s Mike Reid, Fraser Armstrong, and Trainer Shawn VanZyl. Players Cameron Reid, Daxton D’Etcheverrey, Sam Daprocida, Kasey Miller, Tyden Wilson, Leith Olafson, Aspen Cooper, Ryan Renaud, Avery Burki, Brayden Hoglund, Mark VanZyl, Zoe Callwood, Ally Murray, Chase Flegl, Declan Armstrong, Ben Verigin and AP’s Brad Traverse and Justin Sommer.
Fibre optic network
has arrived
C AROLYN GR ANTBulletin Editor
The City of Kimberley and Telus are pleased to announce that fibre optic technology is finally coming to town.
Kimberley residents will have Telus representatives knocking on their doors beginning this week, asking permission to bring fibre to their residence.
Kimberley is the second East Kootenay community to get fibre optics, the first being Creston.
This is big for Kimberley, says Mayor Don McCormick.
“What this means is that Kim-berley is now part of a handful of rural communities who can boast the same high speed internet con-nection as downtown Vancouver. It creates a competitive advantage. Now people can combine lifestyle and business advantages.
“Kimberley is now a serious contender for all kinds of business attraction. It’s a pretty big an-nouncement for us.”
Telus hopes to be able to cover 90 per cent of Kimberley with fibre optic service, only excluding areas where there are access issues.
The budget process rolls onC AROLYN GR ANT
Bulletin Editor
Kimberley’s Mayor, Council and staff have been grinding through the arduous budget process for a couple of months now, trying to find new savings and ways to limit property tax increases.
“A four per cent increase for homeowners and three per cent increase for business taxes was built into the financial plan last year,” McCormick said. “The diffi-culty I have with that is that by building in that four per cent in-crease, basically it means you are over spending. You are spending
money you have not yet collected.” We are endeavouring to get away from that.”
Ideally, the tax increase should be zero, the Mayor says. Getting to that ideal is not going to be easy, even with savings found within the operational budget.
“Right now the cost of living is increasing. The city has its own COLA and it’s three percent,” Mc-Cormick said. “It’s not just inflation but contractual commitments. The union wage increase is 2.5 per cent this year. So to et to zero we need three per cent in cuts to the bud-get.”
McCormick says that over the
last several months, an internal service review has been conduct-ed.
“We managed to cut $130,000 off expenditures. That’s about 1.5 per cent. We continue to look for additional ways to cut expenses.”
Non-profit groups, who regular-ly appeal to the city for assistance are still being considered. McCor-mick says that Councillors Good-win and Roberts are in the process of drafting a policy on how to ap-proach these annual grant applica-tions.
A part of that is looking at best practices from other municipali-ties.
Fast internet and Optik TV now available
Mayor Don McCormick
See FIBRE , Page 3
See BUDGET , Page 4
Doing Kimberley
proudC AROLYN GR ANT
Bulletin Editor
Great news out of Prince George late yesterday — Kimberley’s Colin Ferrie took gold at the Canada Games in the 1.5 Classic Sprint, cross-country ski race. We will have much more on the race in Thurs-day’s Bulletin.
Also on Tuesday, 13-year old Molly Miller, racing against skiers five years and older than her, placed nine in the Women’s Classic Sprint.
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Barry CouLTerTotal donations and donors to the
candidates in the 2014 municipal election have been made public by Elections BC.
Under the Local Elections Cam-paign Financing Act, disclosure statements must be filed with B.C.’s Chief Electoral Officer within 90 days after General Voting Day for an elec-tion.
The filing deadline for the 2014 General Local Elections was 4:30 p.m. on Friday, February 13, 2015. The statements include expenses of each filer and information regarding contributions they received.
In Cranbrook, each candidate filed information as required and the total contributions to each municipal candidate are listed in alphabetical order below. For the most part, can-didates’ campaign expenditures and campaign income all balanced out. For a complete list of donors to each campaign, go to contributions.elec-
tionsbc.gov.bc.ca/pcs/
For Mayor• Lee Pratt: $13,700• Wayne Stetski: $8,641.20• John York: Zero contributions ($24 expenditures)
For Council• Norma Blissett: $4,255• Danielle Cardozo: $1,209.96• Sharon Cross: $3,177• James Elliott: Zero contributions (zero expenditures)• Bob Faiers: $1,935.84• Wesly Graham: $2,960• Isaac Hockley: $3,500• Anna Hudson: $307.50• Brian Kostiuk: $3,941• Alan MacBean: $383.51• Lynn MacIntosh: $300• Ron Popoff: $4,942• Diana J. Scott: $4,057.11• Brad Scriver: $3,450• Tom Shypitka: $1,815.23• Gerry Warner: $2,275
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niCoLe TriggColumbia Valley Pioneer
Costs related to the anti-deer cull lawsuit levied at the District of Invermere in 2012 by the Invermere Deer Protection Society (IDPS) and ensuing appeal are still a subject of contention.
Over a year ago, the society was ordered to pay court costs following the lawsuit’s dismissal in No-vember 2013. The amount the district was allowed to claim based on a schedule of fixed rates set by the Supreme Court of British Columbia came to $12,072.13. A payment of $12,000 — the amount that had been posted as security by the society — was received by the district in July of last year.
“We’ve written off $72 from the original petition because it just wasn’t worth going after,” District of Invermere chief administrative officer Chris Prosser told The Pioneer.
The society had appealed the court’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit, which a judge also dismissed and, again, costs were awarded to the district.
“The total allowed cost by the court for the ap-peal process was $1,689.51 which has not been col-lected and we are deciding how best to proceed,” said Mr. Prosser.
Because the deer society has not consented to paying the cost by signing the Bill of Costs corre-spondence sent to them by the district, the next step for the district would be to pursue a new court order.
“We’d have to go to court a couple times to make (the IDPS) pay,” said Mr. Prosser, adding the process would cost more than the appeal costs.
“We have not directed any action for our lawyers to proceed, either not to get it or to go after it,” he said. “We’ve just been waiting to see what corre-spondence happens.”
While court costs awarded to the district total less than $14,000, Mr. Prosser calculates the actual legal costs related to the lawsuit and appeal amount to approximately $107,000. “So about $34,000 a year we were spending,” he said — not $24,000 as Inver-mere mayor Gerry Taft was quoted as saying in last week’s Pioneer. “We are allowed to have court costs. Only court costs. Not legal costs.”
IDPS president Devin Kazakoff refused The Pio-neer an interview.
Halted cull costs clarified
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Kimberley’s Neil Rye had a great time, and great success, at the Special Olympics Winter Games in Kamloops last week, bringing home three medals. Neil won a gold in both slalom and GS and a bronze in the Super G.
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When it comes to the problem of urban deer, some communities, in-cluding Cranbrook, have turned to culls as a solu-tion, if not a temporary one.
And if you don’t be-lieve they’re a problem, go to Youtube and search for a Cranbrook incident where a deer beat the crap out of someone’s dog.
Imagine if that had been a child.
Communities across the province, including Cranbrook, Kimberley and Invermere and now Oak Bay on Vancouver Is-land, have completed culls in the past or are looking at culls as a solu-tion to urbanized deer.
Culls work in the sense that the urban deer popu-lation is suddenly and im-mediately reduced, how-ever, over time, the urban deer population will come back up as animals wan-der into town from the outskirts.
In other words, culls are a short-term solution for an ongoing issue.
Municipalities dealing with urbanized deer are caught in a bind, because under the Wildlife Act, the province has jurisdiction over the issue and munic-ipalities need provincial approval to undertake any kind of action.
Culls are an emotion-ally-charged issue—one only has to look at cases where deer traps were de-liberately damaged by vandals in Kimberley and Cranbrook last year.
Plus, there’s the cost. Cranbrook has a permit to cull 50 deer, but city coun-cil is estimating a cost of $500 to cull a deer, with a budget of $12,750.
That adds up to only 25 animals.
Some argue why trans-location isn’t being con-sidered. After all, it seems like an easy enough solu-tion to tranquilize the deer and move them out to the wild.
However, according to Jeff Morgan, the Manager of Policy with the Fish and Wildlife Branch, it’s not so simple.
Translocation of un-gulates, including animals such as deer, elk and cari-bou, isn’t without it’s chal-lenges, he said.
“One is the trauma that can occur during the capture and handling processes themselves, so the deer can be breaking limbs and injuring them-selves through that pro-cess,” said Morgan.
“Then the other one is capture-myopathy, so that’s the term and basi-cally it sets itself up under stressful conditions where the deer are exerting themselves and exerting their muscles in an envi-ronment within their body that is low on oxy-gen. And that can cause serious degeneration of muscle tissue and death, and that is very promi-nent in deer.”
Morgan adds that sur-viving in a wild environ-ment is also more chal-lenging for translocated urbanized deer.
“As you can imagine, the animals might not be familiar with that area, they’re very adapted to the environment they’ve been living in and when moved to a whole new environment, they are re-ally at a disadvantage to other animals, especially if they’re urban deer be-cause they might be quite naive when it comes to predators.”
Even with those chal-lenges, why doesn’t the province allow Kootenay communities to translo-cate deer, especially when the mule deer population is struggling?
Again, it’s not as easy as it sounds, according to Morgan.
He confirms that mule deer numbers are 50 per cent below historic levels, which is a result of winter severity, disease and par-asites, predation and their ability to recruit young an-imals into the population. However, adding a few dozen urbanized deer into the wilderness will have a pretty negligible ef-fect on the overall popula-tion numbers, he added.
“Moving a relatively small number of animals, and we estimate that there are between 10,000 and 20,000 [mule deer] in the Kootenay region, so mov-ing a relatively small num-ber of animals to one area or another, is not likely to result in any significant population increase,” Morgan said.
“There are viable pop-
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Fibre opticsFrom page 1And while Telus is in
town putting in the fibre optic cable, they will bring it to your home or busi-ness for free.
“You don’t need to commit to any Telus ser-vices,” McCormick said. “It will cost nothing to bring it to the premises. But then if you wish to take advantage of fibre optics, it will be there. If you don’t let them bring it to the building and then decide in the future you do want it, it would cost money. While Telus is here there is no cost, so it’s to everybody’s best ad-vantage to do it now.”
The Telus representa-tives will request permis-sion from each home and business in the commu-nity before construction commences. The infra-structure will follow the same connection path as
your existing cable, with connections made either below ground or aerially via poles.
If your connection is on a pole to the house, you will see minimal or no impact to your proper-ty. If your connection is below ground, there will be more work required. However, every effort will be made to limit disrup-tions and minimize the impact on your home and daily routine.
In addition to the fast-est internet speeds avail-able (currently up to 100MBps) you will also have access to Telus Optik TV should you decide to purchase the services.
For more information on fibre optic technolo-gy and to register for progress updates, please visit telus.com/kimberley or call 1-855-595-5588.
ulations throughout the Kootenay region as is and they are in equilibrium with their environment and unless those underly-ing factors that control the population densities are changed, we wouldn’t ex-pect the populations to increase.”
All that being said, the province is keeping a close eye on a study look-ing at the mortality rates of deer translocation that involves communities such as Sparwood, Elk-ford and Cranbrook.
“The information that we have been exposed to suggests that transloca-tions of deer causes high mortality rates within the deer that are translocat-ed,” said Morgan. “The mortality can range from 25 to 85 per cent of the deer that are released at a new site. When we looked at that research, it was borne out that 50 per cent or greater mortality oc-curred in seven of the 12 papers that we reviewed.
“The important thing to note is that there’s al-ways advancement in techniques and there are some projects going on in the States where they are using different drugs to reduce stress levels during capture and trawnsport.”
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Membership is open to residents of the City of Cranbrook.
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Applications will be accepted at City Hall (attention Maryse Leroux) or by email [email protected], no later than Monday March 2, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. local time.
Special Council Budget Meeting – Wednesday March 4, 2015
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KIMBERLEY NEWS FEBRUARY 23, 1956
BY-LAW PASSES
Marysville property owners reversed their decision of a year ago Tuesday when they ap-proved by a narrow margin a $115,000 by-
From page 1“Between grants to
non-profits, fee for ser-vice arrangements, grants to organizations like Tourism Kimberley, tax exemptions — the value of that approaches $500,000 a year. That’s six or seven per cent of our current millrate taxes.
“We are trying to take a balanced approach,” he said. “There are ser-vices and organizations that, if we don’t support them, they won’t be there. We are creating a policy, we haven’t had one before. We are look-ing at how much the
City should allocate in total, the types of orga-nizations we should be spending on.”
As for the rest of the budget, it doesn’t have to be approved until May. The capital budget is done and the opera-tions side is under scru-tiny now.
“Council has put in a lot of hours on this,” Mc-Cormick. “We have been meeting one and two times a week for a couple of months. The discussion has been broad, there’s been good debate. We want to come up with the best possible budget we can.”
City budget process
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law for construction of a sewage system.
There were 194 votes cast with 130 in favour and 60 against. Four were rejected. The measure required a two-thirds majority to pass. Chapman Camp ratepayers are voting today on a similar mea-sure.
VILLAGE GROUPS PLAN TO MERGE
At a meeting held in the Legion Hall last Sat-urday evening, mem-bers of the Marysville Social and Athletic Club and of the Marysville Recreation Commis-
sion voted to amalgam-ate, providing the By-Laws being prepared by Mr. Ostrum are accept-able to both organiza-tions.
The meeting was presided over by Mrs. John Rose, Vice-Presi-dent of the Social and Athletic Club, in the ab-sence of the President, Mrs. E. Tait, who has done such splendid work, but who was un-able to be present be-cause of illness.
Seven directors were chosen for the ensuing year – Mrs. C. Shannon, Mrs. J. Rose, and L. Er-ickson, R. Edwards, J, Broster and Don Wait-es. W. Wilcox of Kim-berley was Master of Ceremonies for the so-cial evening which fol-lowed the business meeting. Music for
dancing was supp;ied by Mr. and Mrs. Win-field of Kimberley, ac-companied by Mrs. O. Cox.
Members of both groups expressed their pleasure at having so many Marysville Teen-agers present.
BANDS, FLOATS IN BIG PARADE
Kimberley’s Snow Fiesta parade, which leaves the high school at 6:30 p.m. Thursday night for the official opening at the Arena Ice Palace, promises to be a colourful one.
At least 30 floats are expected to take part and three bands will provide music for the marchers. The commit-tee is urging all Kimber-ley’s youngsters to dress up and take part in the parade. There are cash prizes for the most comical, most original, best decorated sleighs and for individual cos-tumes, Indians, Davy Crocketts or anything the imagination sug-gests.
All taking part in the parade are asked to as-semble at the High School at 5:30 p.m.
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The recent Hip to Be Square evening at Centennial Hall drew big crowds for an evening of square dancing with th eKootenay String Benders. The group chose to give proceeds of the evening to the Kimberley Food Bank. Accepting a cheque for $757 from Keri, Bonnie and Cosima is Heather Smith.
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ONGOING 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.comCanadian Cancer Society- if you have spare time and would like to volunteer, interested applicants can call 250-426-8916, drop by our offi ce at #19-9th Avenue S, Cranbrook or go to www.fi ghtwithus.ca and register as a volunteer.Royal Canadian Legion Branch 24; Friday Meat Draw: 4:30- 6:30, Saturday Meat Draw: 3:30-5:30. Parkinson’s Support Group are meeting at 2 pm on the third Wednesday of each month at the Heritage Inn. For more info. phone Linda @ 250-489-4252. No meetings July, Aug or Dec.Do you have the desire to stop eating compulsively? Overeaters Anonymous (a 12-Step Program) meets Mondays from 7-8pm at Cranbrook United Church, 2-12th St. S., downstairs. Contact: [email protected] Star Quilters Society Meetings are held the 2nd & 4th Monday at 7:00 PM, basement of Centennial Centre, 100 4th Ave Kimberley. Welcoming all! Info call Heather 250 427-4906‘Military Ames’ social/camaraderie/support group meetings are held in the Kimberley Public Library reading room the fi rst and third Tuesday’s of the month. All veterans welcome. For more information contact Cindy 250 919 3137 Dance/Practice: every Saturday. Practice from 7 to 8 PM, dancing until 11 PM. Dance With Me Cranbrook Studio, 206-14 A 13th Street, South, behind Safeway.Volunteers are needed to assist staff with childminding while parents attend programs at the Kimberley Early Learning Center. Come play!! Weekly or monthly for 2 hours. Diana 250427-0716 BINGO - every Monday except public holidays, 6:30 pm at Kimberley Elks, 240 Howard Street. Proceeds to Kimberley Helping Hands Food Bank. All welcome!Funtastic Singers Drop-In Singing group; free to attend-just for fun! No experience necessary! CDAC Offi ce&Gallery 135 10th Ave S, Tuesdays; 6.45-8.15pm 250-426-4223 / [email protected] / www.cranbrookanddistrictartscouncil.comCantabelles, an all-female singing group, meets Mondays, 7-9 pm. Join us and learn how to sing with 2, 3 and 4 part harmonies. Contact: Sue Trombley, 250-426-0808. [email protected] literacy and special projects at the Kimberley Public Library-visit the Friends of the Library Used Bookstore-an ongoing fundraiser- on Main Street Marysville, Wed-Sat 10:30-3:30. Operated totally by volunteers.Volunteers always needed for the Marysville Thrift shop! Please contact Marilyn @ 427-4153 or Jean @ 427-7072.Bibles For Missions Thrift Store, 824 Kootenay St. N., Cranbrook - serving our community to benefi t others - at home and abroad. We turn your donations into helping dollars! Open Tues-Sat 10am-5pm. Phone 778-520-1981.Cranbrook Community Tennis Association welcomes all citizens to play or learn to play. Call Neil 250-489-8107, Cathy 250-464-1903.
UPCOMINGFREE Movie Night @ COTR - Wed, Feb 25th, 2015, “I Am”. Poses practical and provocative questions. Wed, Feb 25th, 2015, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, College of the Rockies – Lecture Theatre Girl Guides of Canada, Cranbrook are hosting a TEA & BAKE SALE on Saturday, February 28th, 2015 at the Cranbrook Guide Hall, 1421 - 2nd Street South, from 12:30 to 3:30pm. Tickets are available from any Guiding member or at the door. Info: Pam at 250-489-3155 or [email protected] Thomas, a suicide prevention speaker, will be coming to Cranbrook March 2, 2015 to the College of the Rockies main lecture theatre, 6:00pm-8:30pm. James lost his sister to suicide in 2005 and now dedicates his life to suicide awareness and prevention. This event is free and everyone is welcome. Donations at the door are appreciated. This has been organized by Sandra Davis with the My Choice Program. Info: Email: [email protected] Phone: 250-919-61552015 FREE PUBLIC SWIM Wednesday, March 4, 5:00-6:00pm is sponsored by Kimberley Health Care Auxiliary.World Day of Prayer, annual service on Friday, March 6, 1:30 pm at Knox Presbyterian Church, corner of Victoria Ave and 3rd St. S. Everyone welcome. Please join us!Fifth Annual Foster Parent Banquet & Loonie Auction, March 7, 5:30pm at the Heritage Inn Ballroom. Tickets: Gerri at 250-489-8441 or Erin at 250-489-8807.Fluoride Free Cranbrook meeting at the Manual Training Centre at the Cranbrook Library. 7:10-8:45pm March 9th. We will be meeting to discuss ways to stop the City from adding industrial waste through the water supply. We can be reached at (250)421-9878.The Kimberley Camera Club presents it’s Annual Digital Show on Wed. March 11, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall, Room 250 at the College of the Rockies in Cranbrook. Admission is by donation.
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The display case at the Cranbrook Library for the month of Febru-ary is beautiful acrylic paintings by Jennie Tay-lor.In the gallery at
Centre 64Main gallery, Tan-
gled Up In Blue, art by Lena McQuaig. Up-stairs, enjoy Late Bloom-er by Rhonda Haws.
BIngoBINGO - every Mon-
day except public holi-days, 6:30 p.m. at Kim-berley Elks, 240 Howard Street. Proceeds to Kim-berley Helping Hands Food Bank. All wel-come!
Wed. FeBruary 25Free MovIe nIght
@ Cotr - “I Am”. Poses practi-
cal and provocative questions. Weds, Feb 25th, 2015 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. College of the Rockies – Lecture The-atre
FrI. FeB 27art MovIe nIght
“Exit Through the Gift Shop”, an entertain-ing documentary about graffiti/urban artists Banksy, Shepherd Fairey, and Mr. Brain-wash, will be showing at Kimberley’s Centre 64 Studio Cabaret this Fri-day, February 27. Movie starts at 7:30pm, en-trance is by donation, no host bar available, free snacks, all ages event. Cabaret-style seating. This 87 minute film was nominated for a 2010 Academy Award for documentaries. Come along with friends to enjoy this film in a casual environment, and then stay for the fa-cilitated discussion/conversation about the movie. Expand your horizons on current trends in contemporary art.
FrI. FeBruary 27north Star ShoWCaSe
Kimberley’s North Star Skaters present their annual Skating Showcase Friday eve-ning at the Kimberley Civic Centre. Show starts at 6:30 p.m.
FrI. FeBruary 27
InternatIonal Fly FIShIng FIlM FeSt
7 p.m. Key City The-atre. Tickets: $15 Ad-vance $20 at door. Chil-dren 12 and under are free. Tickets available at the Box Office 250-426-7006 as well as at St Marys Angler and Mountain Man. IF4 con-sists of short and feature length films from all cor-ners of the globe. It is the event of the year.
Sat. FeBruary 28Intro to oIlS
WorkShoP2 p.m. $35/person.
An introductory work-shop focused on Oil painting skills. Regis-trants will be sent the supply list. The Art Gal-lery is located at: Room #104, 135 10th Avenue South, Cranbrook. To Register or for more in-formation contact Mari-sa Phillips – CDAC Ad-ministrator at: 250-426-4223 or email: [email protected]
MarCh 1 at key CIty theatreIrISh roverS
March 1 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $45/ $40 for KCT Members. Throughout the years, these interna-tional ambassadors of Irish music have main-tained their timeless ability to deliver a rol-licking, rousing perfor-mance of good cheer - one that will soon have you singing and clap-ping along. Their songs have become anthems of revelry and joy among
generation after genera-tion of fans.
Monday MarCh 2BIg Sugar
BIG SUGAR have al-ways been known for their powerful, high vol-ume live performances. Soon, audiences will get a rare chance to see Gordie Johnson and the entire BIG SUGAR fami-ly in an intimate and en-tirely acoustic setting at Key City Theatre in Cranbrook. Reggae, Blues and Jazz, have al-ways walked hand in hand with the rocking Big Sugar sound. Here they will be at the fore-front as showcased on their new release “Yard-style”. Mr Chill’s blues harmonica and John-son’s vocals mixed with Jamaican folk rhythms and Garry Lowe’s signa-ture bass lines along with a stage of Bredren are sure to conjure an unforgettable concert experience. Tickets are $40 and $35 for Key City Theatre members. Tick-ets are available at the Key City Theatre Box Of-fice 250-426-7006 and Online at www.keyci-tytheatre.com
MarCh 5 - 7roCkIeS FIlM FeSt
The Rockies Film Festival lineup is con-firmed. Thursday March 5, 7 p.m. October Gale, Key City Theatre; 8:30 p.m. Wine & Cheese Reception, Key City The-atre; 9 p.m. Big News from Grand Rock, Key City Theatre. Friday March 6, 7 p.m. Red
Army, Columbia The-atre. 9 p.m. Still Alice, Columbia Theatre. Sat-urday March 7, 1 p.m. Rosewater, Columbia Theatre. 3 p.m. Mr. Turner, Columbia The-atre. 7 p.m. 2 Days One Night Co-lumbia Theatre. 9 p.m. Glen Campbell - I’ll Be Me, Columbia Theatre.
FrI. MarCh 6World day oF
Prayer1:30 p.m. Knox Pres-
byterian Church. Join in prayer with people in 170 countries around the world and in 2,000 communities across Canada. We will learn about the peopple of the Bahamas who prepared this yar’s service. Every-one is welcome.
MarCh 6 - 7lIllIth aFFaIrThe Annual By
Women, For Women show at Centre 64. Tick-ets $25 (includes wine). Saturday’s show is sold out, Friday tickets avail-able at Lotus Books in Cranbrook and Velvet & Ginjer and Centre 64 in Kimberley. 19 years and older. Women only.
MarCh 7SIlent auCtIonTickets are on sale
now for the fifth annual Foster Parent Banquet and Loonie Auction. March 7 at 5:30 p.m. at the Heritage Inn Ball-room. $28 each. Contact Gerri at 250-489-8841 or Erin at 250-489-8807.
Sat. MarCh 7 hedWIg at key
CItyHEDWIG and the
Angry Inch - The Musi-cal, presented by Black Productions and Selkirk College. March 7 at 7:30 p.m. ONE SHOW ONLY! Tickets: $24 Adults and $21 Students.
Sun. MarCh 8arne Sahlen
Arne Sahlen, Piano Soul and Spirit - a fami-ly-friendly program, classics to moderns laced with humour from music history Sunday March 8, 3:00 pm at Centre 64, Kimberley. Admission by donation
Wed. MarCh 11PhotograPhyThe Kimberley Cam-
era Club presents it’s Annual Digital Show on Wed. March 11, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall, Room 250 at the College of the Rockies in Cranbrook. Admission is by donation.
Sat. MarCh 14antIque road
ShoWBeta Sigma Phi pres-
ents Kimberley’s very own Antique Road Show at the Kimberley United Church, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $5 and includes coffee/tea and a muffin. Apprais-als $25 one or two items. Gordon Delam-ont, Jeweler/Gemolo-gist and Don Langvand, Dragon Antiques. Pro-ceeds go to Beta Sigma Phi community proj-ects.
Bring in March with the Irish Rovers
Catch the legendary irish Rovers at Key City theatre this Sunday.
PAGE 6 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2015
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players, they have their exits and their entrances….”
Shakespeare
It is a real conundrum: is it the weath-er we enjoy here? Is it because we do not have to put up
with the sogginess of Vancou-ver, the sweltering heat of To-ronto summers, nor the awful climate of the Maritimes? Is it something about this valley makes people very pleasant or is that only pleasant people come to live here? I’m always running into them.
Like my neighbours; I really appreciate them who, whilst I am watching the news and breakfasting at leisure, are out clear-ing the snow from in front of my garden. I have tried to assure them that I am neither incapable nor lazy. It’s just I know that the snow will dissipate on its own or the city might, one day, go to work on it. If I feel that I need exercise, I’ll take a nice walk.
Like recently: I was descending Eager Hill and nearly back to my car when two dogs bounded up to greet me. That enthu-siastic welcome caused me, in my turn, to hasten towards them but, to my dismay, I toppled over. The dogs’ owners rushed towards me crying, “You all right, sir?” and attempted to help me to my feet. Aged and
tottery I might be, but I have heaps of pride. I said, brushing myself off, “I’m fine, thanks. I was merely falling for your lovely dogs.” I got away with that one.
And there were those delightful mis-sionary types, a man and a woman, who came to point out the multitudinous er-
rors of my ways. They told me all about faith and looked heavenward (for inspiration?) into the bright, sunny sky. However, they seemed to have absolutely no knowledge of biology; the fellow explained to
me that the first MAN (Adam?) thought that he might like to have children and therefore had to come up with the bright idea of WOMAN. When I explained that all of our evolutionary forebears seem to have needed two sexes in order to repro-duce, the man looked confused but then maundered on about we humans ruining the world we live in with our avarice. I at-tempted to explain that, because MAN discovered WOMAN, we humans have become extremely successful at reproduc-ing and that we all need somehow to be fed.
We men shook hands solemnly and I sneaked a hug from the woman then the missionaries wandered off. It had all be pleasant enough, but I wondered.
I wondered about the woman with the mistaken sense of generosity. I had prom-ised myself that I wouldn’t air the good-ness of the lady but, from out of nowhere, she proffered a nice new twenty dollar bill. I didn’t think that I looked like a down-and-outer. I was, in fact, placing some stamps I’d just purchased in the Post Of-fice in my wallet when she drew up beside me, wound down the window of her car and handed the twenty to me. As gra-ciously as I was able, I refused the money, told the lady that I was, ipso facto, finan-cially well off, and she drove off. If she should read this column, I hope that I didn’t offend her and that I appreciated her kindness. I am still wondering if I looked that badly off; maybe I should buy another T-shirt.
One day I shall go back into the law-courts and thank the young woman in the office there. I’d been putting on my daft act (my friends assure me that I have no need to act) in order to make sure that I’d be excused from jury duty. After getting a snappily dressed lawyer to trot around for me, I wound up in the office where the said young lady came round from her sta-tion behind the counter in order to lead me by the arm to the sheriff’s office. She was extremely courteous.
Is it just that the pleasant folk here-abouts feel sorry for me? I am extremely old as well as daft.
All the world’s a stage
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HOCKEY QUOTE“Being able to stand on that blue line and hear
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Fernie, BC
StrangleholdDynamiters defeat Thunder Cats for 3-1 series lead
Without a paddleIce surrender to Broncos in shootout; reset for Regina Pats Wednesday
Kootenay Ice Scoring SummariesTueSday, Feb. 24
KooTenay Ice 6 aT SwIFT currenT broncoS 7 (So)
First Period 1. KTN - L. Philp, (27) (T. Murray, C. Fleury), 1:282. KTN - T. Bozon, (27) (S. Reinhart, J. Martin), 3:073. SCB - T. LeSann, (5) (C. Leth), 3:224. KTN - J. Descheneau, (28) (A. Vetterl, L. Philp), 9:00Second Period 5. SCB - C. Gordon, (20) (G. Gawdin, J. Merkley), 4:236. KTN - T. Bozon, (28) (J. Martin, S. Reinhart), 9:207. KTN - T. Lishchynsky, (1) (L. Philp, S. Reinhart), 19:05 (PP)Third Period 8. SCB - C. Gordon, (21) (G. Gawdin), 5:029. SCB - J. DeBrusk, (36) (C. Rigby, C. Cave), 14:0310. SCB - A. Nikkel, (2) (J. DeBrusk), 16:2311. KTN - L. Cable, (26) (L. Philp, L. Hackman), 17:1312. SCB - C. Cave, (28) (B. Lernout, C. Gordon), 18:35Overtime - no scoringShootoutKootenay Ice: L. Philp (x), T. Bozon (x), J. Descheneau (x), S. Reinhart (x)Swift Current Broncos:C Gordon (x), G. Gawdin (x), M. Lajoie (x), J. DeBrusk (√)Shots 1 2 3 OT TKootenay Ice 12 11 9 2 34Swift Current Broncos 10 12 11 4 37Goaltenders Saves Mins SV%KTN - Wyatt Hoflin 31/37 65:00 0.838SCB - Landon Bow 13/18 29:20 0.722 Travis Child 15/16 35:22 0.938Power playsKootenay Ice 1/1 (100.0%)Swift Current Broncos 0/2 (000.0%)Three Stars: 1) L. Philp (KTN); 2) C. Gordon (SCB); 3) G. Gawdin (SCB)Attendance: 1,911
Upcoming GamesFeb. 25 at ReginaFeb. 27 at BrandonFeb. 28 at BrandonMarch 6 vs. Red DeerMarch 7 at Medicine HatMarch 10 vs. LethbridgeMarch 13 vs. Medicine HatMarch 14 at Red DeerMarch 18 at LethbridgeMarch 20 vs. CalgaryMarch 22 at Calgary
Scoring StatisticsPlayer GP G A PTS PIM Jaedon Descheneau 59 28 44 72 52 Luke Philp 60 27 44 71 22Tim Bozon 46 28 26 54 14Sam Reinhart 36 15 37 52 20Levi Cable 58 26 20 46 8Rinat Valiev 41 8 32 40 46Zak Zborosky 61 16 18 34 16Tyler King 57 8 22 30 31Austin Vetterl 61 10 18 28 52Matt Alfaro 61 9 19 28 28Jon Martin 45 7 14 21 73Troy Murray 61 3 14 17 26Ryan Chynoweth 60 4 11 15 39Cale Fleury 59 1 11 12 6Tanner Lishchynsky 24 1 10 11 24Vince Loschiavo 49 5 3 8 8River Beattie 54 4 4 8 29Bryan Allbee 45 3 4 7 12Tanner Faith + 19 1 5 6 29Lenny Hackman 51 1 3 4 0Dylan Overdyk 28 0 3 3 11Wyatt Hoflin 56 0 2 2 2Austin Wellsby 34 1 0 1 9
Goaltending StatisticsPlayer W L OT/SL SO GAA SPWyatt Hoflin 30 23 2 3 3.27 0.898 Keelan Williams 1 4 0 0 5.11 0.854
Wednesday, Feb. 25
Kootenay Ice at RegIna Pats
GAME TIME: 6 P.M. (MT)LAST MEETING: REG 3 at KTN 4 - OT (Jan. 30)
ICE vs. PATS (31-27-1-2) RECORD (33-19-4-3) Fourth (Central) DIVISION Second (East) Sixth (Eastern) CONF. Fourth (Eastern) 208 GF 218 221 GA 187 12th (20.7%) PP 21st (14.9%) T-8th (80.4%) PK 14th (79.6%) J. Descheneau (28-44-72) TOP SCORER S. Steel (15-34-49) W. Hoflin (3.27 GAA) TOP GOALIE D. Wapple (3.03 GAA) SL1 STREAK W3 7-6 SL at SCB LAST GAME 5-4 W at SAS Feb. 27 at BWK NEXT GAME Feb. 27 vs. MHT
Taylor rocc aSports Editor
The Kootenay Ice managed to scrounge one point in a 7-6 shootout loss on the road against the Swift Current Broncos Tues-day night.
With his team having blown a 5-2 lead in the third period of play, Koo-tenay Ice head coach Ryan McGill was not pleased with his group.
“To lose after you have a 5-2 lead going into the third period -- clearly, it’s acceptable for the group,” McGill said over the phone from Swift Current. “What are you going to do about it? You can’t do anything about it now.
“We were casual in our play from the start of the period to the end. We didn’t think that it was important enough for us to be urgent with the puck and, really simply, play the right way.”
The three-goal ad-vantage wasn’t the only multi-goal lead the Ice let slip away Tuesday.
After 20 minutes of play, Luke Philp, Tim Bozon and Jaedon De-scheneau had all tallied. A response from Tanner LeSann got the Broncos on the board, but the Ice carried a 3-1 advantage
into the first intermis-sion.
The Ice outscored the Broncos yet again in the second period, as Bozon registered his second of the evening and defenceman Tan-ner Lishchynsky scored his first as a member of the Ice with a pow-er-play goal in the final minute of the period.
Coda Gordon mus-tered the only goal for the Broncos in the sec-ond period and once again, the Ice carried a commanding lead -- this time 5-2 -- into the the second intermission.
Then it all came crashing in.
Gordon scored his second of the night 5:02 into the third period to make it a two-goal game.
With time winding down, Jake DeBrusk tal-lied his 36th goal of the campaign to pull the Broncos within one.
After a turnover deep in Swift Current territory, the Broncos took the puck the other direction on the strength of a three-on-two, odd-man rush. DeBrusk found de-fenceman Ayrton Nikkel up on the play and the 19-year-old Kelowna na-tive cashed in to tie the game 5-5 with 3:37 re-maining in regulation.
Less than a minute later, Ice forward Levi Cable made a nifty move down low before send-ing a wrist shot over the glove of Broncos goal-tender Travis Child, who came on in relief of Landon Bow after the Broncos starter allowed five goals on 18 shots.
Once again, the Ice led the Broncos, this time with 2:47 to play.
They refused to go away all night long, so why would a deter-mined Swift Current Broncos team pack it in at that point?
All it took was 1:22 before Broncos captain Colby Cave redirected a point shot to tie the game
6-6 and force overtime.After a scoreless extra
period and three rounds without a goal in the shootout, DeBrusk bur-ied a shot blocker side on Ice goaltender Wyatt Hoflin to put his team in the driver’s seat for the first time all night.
And it was all the Broncos needed.
Ice captain Sam Re-inhart had to score to keep the game alive in the fourth round of the shootout and despite beating Child with a smooth deke, the Buffa-lo Sabres prospect rang a backhand shot off the crossbar.
The comeback was complete.
The devastating 7-6
loss comes on the heels of three consecutive wins for the Ice, includ-ing a 5-0 shutout victory over the Spokane Chiefs Saturday night.
Once again, consis-tency continues to plague.
“[This] should have been ironed out a long time ago,” McGill said. “It’s a consistency issue within the room. We’ve got to get better every day and we’ve got to feel that it’s important to
string together some consistency and some wins.
“We had a 3-1 lead and a 5-2 lead and we were in control. We be-came casual. I think we thought it was going to be easy. I can’t speak for [the players] but that’s what I think.”
Hoflin managed 31 saves in facing 37 shots, while Child turned aside 15 of 16 pucks to earn the win in relief of Bow.
The Kootenay Ice re-
turn to action Wednes-day night as they visit the Regina Pats.
“We’ve got to play [Wednesday]. There’s no message right now,” McGill said. “If I need to send them a message right now, then I shouldn’t even be here.”
Notes: The Kootenay Ice went without D Rinat Valiev (flu), D Tanner Faith (shoulder), D Dylan Overdyk & F Aus-tin Wellsby Tuesday...
Taylor rocc aWith a 3-1 win over
the Creston Valley Thun-der Cats Tuesday night, the Kimberley Dynamit-ers return home with a commanding 3-1 series lead in their best-of-sev-en Eddie Mountain Divi-sion semifinal.
“It was a very similar game to all the other ones,” said Dynamiters head coach Jerry Bancks over the phone from the team bus after the game. “Tyson [Brouwer] played phenomenal. Special teams -- we scored on the power play, they didn’t. That was basical-ly the difference. Five-on-five it was pretty tight.
“They play a really defensive system and don’t gamble alot or give you a lot of room. We try to do the same thing, so it’s a very tight game.”
The stark difference
Tuesday night in Game 4 was the man between the pipes for the Thun-der Cats.
Brock Lefebvre had been stellar for his squad to this point in the series, but was forced out of ac-tion due to suspected injury ahead of Game 4. Mitch Martell took over the crease and put forth an equally strong perfor-mance.
“His last few games were pretty impressive. We know he is a great goaltender as well,” Bancks said. “It didn’t change a whole lot.
“He can play and it was another good goal-tenders battle tonight.”
Martell turned aside 23 of 25 shots against, while Brouwer stopped 22 of 23.
The teams exchanged first period goals, with Nitros forward Coy Pre-
vost tallying on the power play and Connor Ward responding mid-way through the period for the Thunder Cats.
Once again, the power play got it down for the Dynamiters as Eric Buckley cashed in for a 2-1 lead after 40 minutes.
Nitros forward Bra-den Saretsky rounded out the scoring with an empty-net goal one sec-ond before time expired.
The Nitros can ad-vance to the next round of the playoffs Thursday at the Kimberley Civic Centre. Puck drop for Game 5 goes at 7 p.m.
“We’ve got to keep sticking with what we’re doing,” Bancks said.
“A good solid effort. Guys blocking shots and playing hard for each other -- we’ve got to keep that going.”
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Winner of the November 2014 prize in the 2015 calendar is Charlene Rothwell. She received a prize package from Medichair. Medichair donated Airgo snow grabbers, Thermophore heating pad, a shoe horn and a medistik spray for pain relief. In picture from left to right: Charlene Rothwell and John Bain.
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VICTORIA – When Andrew Wilkinson start-ed the year in his new job as advanced educa-tion minister, he knew B.C. universities hired lobbyists to pitch expan-sion plans to govern-ment.
Wilkinson was one of those lobbyists in his role as a lawyer in private practice, before being elected MLA for Vancou-ver-Quilchena in 2013.
Under attack for the second day in question period at the B.C. legisla-ture, Wilkinson said Tuesday the practice of universities hiring ex-pensive consultants to speak to the government that funds and regulates them should come to an end.
“It’s been abundantly clear since I took this role that access to my ministry and to me is un-limited for all the institu-tions,” Wilkinson told the legislature. He said he will advise all B.C. post-secondary institu-tions that they don’t need lobbyists, but as in-dependent institutions it will be up to them to de-cide.
On Monday, opposi-tion critics produced re-cords showing Kwantlen Polytechnic University
had paid consultant Mark Jiles $177,000 for “relationship building” with the government over several years. Jiles also worked on execu-tive compensation for Kwantlen, where school officials were paid unre-ported bonuses that broke government salary caps.
That controversy led to Wilkinson switching cabinet jobs with Sur-rey-Tynehead MLA
Amrik Virk, who was in-volved in the overpay-ments as a member of the Kwantlen board. The cabinet shuffle took place quietly in Decem-ber, after emails surfaced that contradicted Virk’s claims he was not in-volved in the overpay-ments.
On Monday, NDP ad-vanced education critic Kathy Corrigan de-scribed Jiles’ compensa-tion as “$15,000 a hand-
shake.” On Tuesday, NDP leader John Horgan went further.
“The $177,000 to Mr. Jiles translated into a $50,000 contribution to the B.C. Liberal Party from Mr. Jiles,” Horgan told the legislature. “The minister [Wilkinson] lobbied for Simon Fraser University. Is the minis-ter okay with $50,000 coming from the public back to the B.C. Liberal Party?”
Corrigan said Tues-day a similar arrange-ment saw lobbyist and “Liberal insider” Don Stickney paid $75,000 by Vancouver Community College.
Wilkinson is a former president of the B.C. Liberal Party who served as deputy minis-ter for economic devel-opment and intergov-ernmental relations with former premier Gordon Campbell.
Universities don’t need lobbyists, minister says
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Advanced Education Minister Andrew Wilkinson visits the Chilliwack campus of University of the Fraser Valley Feb. 20, part of a tour of institutions he began after being appointed in December.
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“It’s been at least 15 years
since we performed in Cranbrook,” remarks v o c a l i s t - g u i t a r i s t George Millar of the Irish Rovers. “It’s nice to be back in the Koote-nays, so we can say hello and goodbye at the same time.”
The Irish Rovers will say Hello and Goodbye to their East Kootenay fans this coming Sunday, March 1, at Cranbrook’s Key City Theatre as part of their honest-to-good-ness Farewell Tour.
“It’s a bittersweet realization that here’s a half-century of the Irish Rovers coming to a close. The big prize at the end of any day for any band is being on-stage for those couple of hours. The people are there waiting for you, they’re there to see you. We’re going to miss that, of course,
but we’re not going to completely stop. We’ll still be playing some of the bigger folk festival — not the day to day travelling. We’ll still be releasing an album every 18 months or so. They’re not going to get rid of us quite that easily!”
Born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland in 1947, George Millar’s family emigrated to To-ronto, where he first formed the Irish Rov-ers in 1963 (along with his brother Will and cousin Joe) during the midst of the North American folk-music boom of the pre-Beat-les pop era. After estab-lishing themselves in the Yorkville Scene and the US West Coast as an enjoyable live act, the Irish Rovers signed with Decca Records in 1966 and soon became Canada’s most famous folk group (not least due to their hit version
their own internation-ally-syndicated CBC program (1971-1978), and enjoyed continual chart success into the 1980s with tongue-in-cheek country-rock crossover ditties such as “Wasn’t That a Party,” “No More Bread and Butter,” “Chatta-noogie Shoeshine Boy,” and “Grandma Got Run Over By a Rein-deer” (before returning to their more tradition-al Irish folk roots, where they remain).
Rather than allow-ing the Irish Rovers to deflate into a mere old-ies act, Millar remains as prolific a songwriter as he’s ever been, and he’s lost none of his tal-ent or his sass.
“There’s a song we wrote for the last CD called ‘Her Wonderful Ass.’ As it turns out, it’s a barnyard story at the end of the song; you’re not quite sure what it is until the end. I tell peo-ple that I wrote it for my wife ... but she doesn’t like me to say that too often! Just after Christmas, my wife and I went to Hawaii for a couple of weeks, just to get ready for the tour, and I wrote ten new songs there! I wasn’t sure if I could write Irish-style folk tunes in a tropical climate, but I write them down as they come.
“There’s different processes to songwrit-ing. With some people,
you have to sit down with a pad and a paper. With me, I usually just sit down with my guitar and something usually starts coming. Maybe somebody around you says something that has a catchy thing to it, and inspires you to think: that might be a good song! That’s the way it happens. I don’t try to decipher it too much. I just go with it.”
And the Irish Rovers intend on wrapping up their Farewell Tour in grand style.
“We’re working on a new live DVD,” says Millar. “At the end of the tour, we end up at the Port Theatre in Nanaimo. We’re film-ing the live show, and then we’re gong to Ire-land in May, and we’re going to do some out-takes to add to the per-formance. The whole band is going over, just to relax. We’ve rented an old castle down near Cork, and we’ll be there for five or six days. We’ll have a few cameras rolling, and whatever we catch that isn’t too rude, we’ll put into the DVD as extra parts.”
Millar and crew are taking a carefully thought-out approach to their Grand Global Goodbye.
“We just finished our Farewell Tour of New Zealand just be-fore Christmas, and we’re doing the rest of
Canada starting in No-vember. We’re covering the world, bit by bit, and it’ll take us the bet-ter part of a year to go everywhere we’ve played. I don’t want to sound like Che, who’s on her fourth farewell tour! Rather than be on the road for two years straight, like some big rock and roll band, we’re out four or five weeks at a time and take two or three weeks off in between. It’s much easier and nicer for us that way.”
Intriguing words from the Irish Rovers’ bandleader: during the group’s heyday, they developed a notorious reputation for outland-ish post-performance drunken debauchery that would even have made the maniacs in the Who sit up and take notice. Unlike the Who, however, the band-members of the Irish Rovers are all alive and well and seem no worse for wear. Per-haps it’s a testimony to their Hibernian hardi-ness.
“You become in-sane if you stay on the road for any length of time and you don’t go home. You need to go home and be normal for a few weeks, rather than living in vans and hotels and trying to play good shows. After a while, if you stay on the road too long, you become robotic. You
Farewell, but Not Goodbye The Irish Rovers’ Victory Lap
of Shel Silverstein’s “The Unicorn”).
The band hosted
just go through the mo-tions, and there’s no passion or spontaneity to the performance. That’s not what you want when people are paying good money. You want to be fresh and at your best, every night. That’s what we aim to do.”
This care and re-spect the Irish Rovers pay back to their fans comes back to Millar and crew in a seeming-ly unending series of enthusiastic audience response, concert after concert.
“All of the shows have been really good! We have a lot of fans who come up to us after the show, and we’ll sign autographs and talk with them. Some of them have tears in their eyes! So I have to say ‘hang on - it’s not the exact end!’ It’s not that we’re going to vanish. We’re still going to be around. There’s a bunch of De-troit fans who are flying out to Nanaimo to be part of the audience for the final concert! So all of the shows on the farewell tour have been memorable.”
And so a significant chapter in Canadian musical history comes to an end. Or, as Millar might say, the end of a new beginning. There’s no telling what the old rascal still has up his sleeves.
“After this many years, we’ve made so many friends and you have to say goodbye to them all. It’s a wee bit teary, but at the same time it’s bittersweet and wonderful. With-out the fans, we’d never have done this. We’ve been blessed that for 50 years we’ve been able to sing the songs we love to sing, to hang around with the same band, and at the end of the day we get paid to do it! It’s a wonderful world and a wonderful life that the fans have given us.
“We’ve had the freedom to do basically what we want, and if anybody is able to say at the end of the day that they really love their job, then they’re pretty happy people — and the Irish Rovers are Pretty Happy Peo-ple!”
The Irish Rovers’ farewell tour line-up
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