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On Thursday December 11th Marysville Elementary School presented their Christmas Concert “Arf! On the Rooftop “ which was about puppies at the SPCA looking for a home at Christmas. The concert admission was donations to the Kimberley Food Bank and the students are proud to say that they collected $275 cash and many, many boxes of food. Merry Christmas from Marysville Elementary School!

SunMine slightly behind

scheduleProject slated to

go online in March, $79,000

over-budget

C AROLYN GR ANTBulletin Editor

On Monday, De-cember 15, Kimberley City Council sat for a public council meet-ing for the first time since their election.

Mayor Don McCor-mick requested an up-date on the SunMine project to bring new Council up to speed on the solar project.

City CAO Scott Sommerville informed Council that the proj-

ect was now projected to connect to the power grid sometime in March, rather than January as expected.

Sommerville said the delay was due to the interconnection with BC Hydro, which took a closer look and dropped the scope of the project from 2 MW to 1MW and suggested a few other options (with some added ex-pense) to prevent the grid from being tripped.

“We expect the Sun-Mine will be connect-ed to the grid some time in March,” he said.

See SUNMINE, p. 3

C AROLYN GR ANTBulletin Editor

Coun. Albert Ho-glund tried to take City Council down the road of writing a letter of complaint to highways contractor Mainroad, but he couldn’t con-vince fellow councillors to travel with him.

Hoglund suggested that the City write a let-ter stating displeasure to Mainroad, which has come under fire lately for what some people

think is inadequate maintenance of East Kootenay highways.

However, he couldn’t get a seconder for his motion. Most Council-lors said that driving to conditions was required and the contractor did all they could.

Hoglund did not agree, saying many peo-ple felt the contractor should have been out more often but, “if ev-eryone is happy with the highways”, he couldn’t go forward.

Hoglund asks Council to indicate

“displeasure” with highway maintenance Kimberly Health

Care Auxiliary has $40,000 gift for Starlite ICU

campaign

FOR THE BULLE TIN

The Kimberley Health Care Auxiliary continues to show its commitment to the re-gional hospital with a third leadership gift for the Intensive Care Unit. In 2013, the KHCA and its mem-bers made an unprece-dented gift of $20,000

through EKFH’s Star-lite Campaign, lighting four stars atop the re-gional hospital.

That Starlite gift combined with several other donor gifts is purchasing two ceiling booms for the new ICU in Cranbrook. With the recent funding realign-ment between Interior Health, Kootenay East Regional Hospital Dis-trict and EKFH, a re-surgence and focus for additional equipment for the ICU is taking centre stage.

See KHCA, p. 4

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Chris Shumka, IH Health Service Director Acute-East Kootenay, EKFH Chair Brian Clifford, KHCA President Jacquie Perrault and AJ Brekke, IH Critical Manager ER & ICU

$40,000 from Kimberley Health Care Auxiliary

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THANK YOUCranbrook Rotary Club and Cranbrook Colombo Lodge wish to thank the following

businesses, groups and individuals for their generous donations of goods, services and volunteer help in making the 33rd Annual Seniors Dinner a huge success:

Rick’s Fine Meats & Sausage

The Pacemakers

Kootenay Kwik Print

Kootenay News Advertiser

Cranbrook Daily Townsman

Jim Pattison Broadcasting

Heritage Inn & Convention Centre

Real Canadian Superstore

Selkirk Beverages

Senior Citizens Club

Mayor Stetski and Councillor Pallesen

MLA Bill Bennett’s staff

MP David Wilks staff

Sam Steele Youth Ambassadors

Cranbrook Firefighters

Captain Kirk Green

Volunteers and friends from the community

The Seniors Dinner Committee would like to acknowledge with sincere thanks the financial support of the Cranbrook Rotary

Club and the Cranbrook Colombo Lodge and for the many volunteer hours put in by the members, spouses and friends of the Cranbrook Rotary Club and the Cranbrook Colombo Lodge.

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Banker’s auction raises $12,000 for Food Bank, Salvation Army

arne Pe TryShenThe Cranbrook

Banker’s Association held it’s annual Food Bank Auction on Dec. 5.

The fundraiser lunch included a live and si-lent auction held at at the Heritage Inn.

It is the biggest fund-raiser for the food bank, and this year money also went to the Salva-tion Army.

“We managed to raise $12,000 through items that were donated by Cranbrook business-es and banks,” said Maureen Foxworthy, from RBC Cranbrook branch.

The $12,000 was split up, with $6,000 going to the Salvation Army and $6,000 going to the food bank.

“I don’t know any other community where all of us bank managers

get together and orga-nize something like this,” Foxworthy said.

This was their 20th year and about 120 peo-ple came out to the lun-cheon.

“We had a live auc-tion with 10 items and then we had about 110 silent auction items,” she said, “We buy a lot of things – we’ll go out and buy a bunch of stuff and make baskets.”

Other banks will go

out and buy coffee mak-ers and other items.

They also raise $5 a person for the lunch it-self, plus there is a day spa draw and a 50/50 draw.

“All we pay out of that is whatever the Heritage charges up for the lunch and they gave us a good deal,” she said.

The whole event takes place over an hour and fifteen minutes.

“They get their buffet lunch, run around and then we have a live auc-tion going on while they run around and write their names on what they’d like to buy,” she said.

She said the fund-raiser went great, though they didn’t ex-ceed last year’s amount goal of $13,000, but ex-pects next year’s fund-raiser to go even better.

Arne Petryshen Photo

Cranbrook bankers gave a $6,000 cheque to both the Salvation Army and the Cranbrook Food Bank Society on Tuesday, Dec. 16. The funds were raised through the Cranbrook Banker’s Association’s annual Food Bank Auction. Pictured above are: Sheila Maurer, CIBC; Maureen Foxworthy, RBC; Nancy Lemire, Salvation Army; Captain Kirk Green, Salvation Army; and Rajean Grainger, Scotia Bank. Missing from the photo are Mary Quinn, BMO; Doug Frioult, TD/CT; Jill Dickson, HSBC; and Gerry Oviatt, Cranbrook Food Bank Society.

Courtesy JAne nixon

Primary students from Pinewood Elementary School enjoyed the afternoon at Fort Steele on Wednesday, December 10. Left to right: Mylee Kozicky, Preston Czernicki, Ashton Simcak and Hailiea Blackmore.

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Submit ted by mcKim JournaliSm club

What up? The sky. Duh! It’s us, The McKim Journalism Club, ready to report.

We have a lot of great clubs at McKim. One of these awesome clubs is The Library Club. We make bookmarks, orga-nize books on the shelves, doodle and decorate bul-letin boards to reflect dif-ferent holidays. We have fun.

Intramurals is getting into the spirit of Christ-mas. Intramurals is a re-ally fun lunchtime activi-ty where kids participate in different sporting ac-tivities. This week we played Forwards and Guards. Every month there is a student of the month for each grade. Congratulations to our grade 4 and 5 winners this month, Charlize Moritz and Hailey Ko-pecky. Excellent job, girls!

Since we are talking about clubs, a popular club is Outdoor Club. Students who love the outdoors can participate in outdoor activities and learn cool skills like first aid, climbing, tying knots, etc…Mr. Ferguson wel-comes students from all grades.

On Wednesday at lunch hour, Mr. Quiggley runs the Splash of Colour Club. This is an art based club where students draw and create different masterpieces.

Our Drama Club runs on Friday afternoons and perform short skits for monthly assemblies. Mr. McCue runs this amazing club.

These are only a few of the tremendous oppor-tunities we offer here at McKim.

Next week the focus is on our favorite holiday…CHRISTMAS!!!!! Peace, out!

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berley Heritage Museum Archives

KIMBeRLeY NeWS NeWSPaPeR,

DeceMBeR 15, 1955

HeavY SNoWfaLL UPSetS fINaNceS

The heaviest early winter snowfall since 1950 is raising cain with the city works depart-ment.

The 60-odd inches of snow that have fallen so far this year have not only kept snow removal crews busier than they`ve been for years but have also cost tax-payers a great deal more money than had been anticipated, according to City Engineer K.H. Montgomery.

“We do not figure on too much expenditure until after turn of the year,” Mr. Montgomery said, adding that from 1951 on their plans were usually fairly accurate.

He thought it likely that the amount esti-mated for all of 1955 for snow removal would be exceeded by as much as $2,000 when the bills are totalled up.

And it`s not the snow removal alone that piles up the cost. It`s the reg-ular need for a heavy sanding program on slippery streets and Kimberley`s many hills.

By the time the city budget is prepared in the spring, the snow re-

moval job is a thing of the past. There`s no need then for the works department to guess at the cost but to use actu-al figures with estimated costs for the final two months. That was the procedure followed this year and it might have worked very well indeed in view of last year`s rel-atively light fall. But weatherman had other ideas about it and a lop-sided works budget is the result.

HoURS Set foR SHoPPINg

Store hours over the Christmas season have been decided upon by the Retail Merchants Bureau of the Kimberley Chamber of Commerce.

Stores will be open Thursday evening until 8 p.m. and again until the same hour next Tuesday, December 29. They will remain open on Wednesday after-noon until 5:30 p.m. and on Friday, December 23, until 8 p.m. and all stores will remain closed on December 25 and 26, the official holidays for Christmas Day and Box-ing Day.

The Hudson`s bay Company has an-nounced it will remain open in evening hours until 9 p.m. and there is a possibility of changes in the schedule in re-spect to December 23. These, if made, will be announced in our next issue.

The way it was

From Page 1He said Teck would be helping the City to

ensure that timeline was met because they want-ed the SunMine connected before spring when they require power for their mine dewatering and pump-ing.

“The project is $79,000 over-budget,” Sommer-ville said. “We new going in that built in contingen-cies were light. We are a couple of months behind and $79,000 over-budget.”

However, it was pointed out that operational costs would be lower than projected for 2015 which would make up some of the difference.

“It is a very complex project,” said Coun. Darryl Oakley. “It was clearly known by everyone that the contingency wasn’t enough.”

SunMine project delayed

Wilks looks back on eventful year

arne PetryShenTownsman Staff

Last Friday, Kootenay Columbia MP David Wilks spoke to the Townsman/Bul-letin about a busy and eventful year. He said he’s looking forward to being in the riding for the next few weeks for the Christ-

mas break.Overall, Wilks said it has been a positive

year.“I’ve been able to move some of this

stuff forward that’s important for the rid-ing,” Wilks said. “I’ve been able to secure a significant amount of funding for commu-nities around the riding – specifically to water treatment plants in Nakusp and Creston.

“There are infrastructure issues

throughout the riding that each of the communities have been able to take ad-vantage of. Some of those funding an-nouncements were for small amounts, some were for larger amounts, but all-in-all I think everyone benefitted from some federal funding this year.”

There has also been a significant amount of legislation, with Wilks estimat-ing 20 to 30 pieces.

See WILKS, page 4

MP Wilks reflects on 2014

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From Page 1Upon hearing the

news, members of the KHCA took no time to decide that they want-ed to continue their focus on equipment critically needed for the Intensive Care Unit.

At yesterday’s KHCA Christmas luncheon President Jacquie Per-rault on behalf of the KHCA members an-nounced a second gift of $40,000 to the Starlite Campaign and the ICU redevelopment project. In total the KHCA has dedicated $60,000 EKRH’s intensive care unit.

“Thanks to the many donations to and pur-chases from our Thrift Shops in Kimberley and Marysville our Auxiliary is very fortunate to be able to not only support health care in Kimber-ley but the regional hos-pital as well,” reports KHCA President Jacquie Perrault.

KHCA’s 2014 Starlite Gift will light 4 large stars and 8 smaller stars with the funds directed to the key component of the ICU equipment list – the central communi-cations station.

EKFH Chair Brian Clifford, “The efforts of

the Kimberley Health Care Auxiliary volun-teers and their interest in supporting not just their community but the regional hospital are truly outstanding. The KHCA and its volun-teers are stars them-selves, the ICU is going to be the benefactor of their hard work and commitment.”

If you haven’t paid a visit to the KHCA Thrift Stores before please think of it in the future. The trinkets and trea-sures you find there can make a difference in the lives of others. KHCA and EKFH, although in-

dependent charitable organizations, work to-gether for the better-ment of health care bringing vital equip-ment and patient com-forts to the needs of hos-pital’s and health care facilities in Cranbrook and Kimberley.

The 2014 Starlite Campaign is underway running from 28 No-vember – 31 January 2015. To make a dona-tion to the ICU please visit www.ekfh.ca. KHCA Thrift stores are located at 140 Howard St, Kimberley or 617C 304th St, Marysville.

$40,000 from KHCA

Stan Salikin representing the Kimberley Helping Hands Food Bank is receiv-ing a cheque for $1000 from Suzanne McAllister of the Kimberley Home Grown Music Society. Each year the proceeds from the pre Christmas coffee house are donated to the Food Bank along with non perishable food items and monetary donations received by the patrons attending the show.

Carolyn Grant photo

Cath Oscarson from the Kimberley Food Bank accepts a $500 donation from Noweata Schofer of FOCUS. FOCUS raises funds through weekly meat draws at the Elks Club with a generous assist from Kimberley Overwaitea.

From Page 3“There’s been a ton

of legislation,” he said, noting that included Bill C-32 — amend-ments to the Firearms Act — that the Conser-vatives pledged in the 2011 campaign.

“So slowly making inroads with that and moving forward with that.”

Most recently, there was the introduction of the Universal Childcare Tax Benefit.

“Every family with children, from new-born to 17, will receive a cheque in the mail every month that will go towards how they see fit to take care of their children, on top of a daycare credit that’s available,” he said.

The government also got rid of the Cana-dian Wheat Board. Wilks noted that was a good thing for Western Canadian farmers.

Wilks personally worked on prostitution bill C-36.

“I sat on the com-mittee for that and be-lieve we came up with the best solution on a no-win type of scenario for us,” he said. “So I think we came up with the best that we could with that.”

Wilks said the legis-lation on the table is about all that will be coming forward for 2015 until the election on Oct. 19.

“The legislation that we’ve put forward is about what you’re going to see, because

we’re running out of time,” he said. “We do have some stuff in Jus-tice Committee that we’re dealing with.”

That includes the Sexual Predators Act, as well as two govern-ment bills and three private members bills to deal with. He said that would take them until June.

“I think you’ll see most members of par-liament from both sides, including myself, ramping up for the election, getting ready and moving forward to Oct. 19,”  he said.

Wilks said he was also able to secure about $50 million in funding for the Trans Canada Highway.

“We were able to re-pave all of Revelstoke National Park and up-

grade three bridges in Glacier National Park,” he said. “That’s one of my most important en-deavours within my time in the house of commons. I really would like to see a commitment for the twinning of the Trans Canada highway. It needs to be done, so let’s see what happens in this upcoming bud-get.”

Wilks was also pres-ent on Parliament Hill during the traumatic events of Oct. 22, when a lone gunman shot and killed a Canadian soldier on sentry duty. The gunman was then shot and killed by the Commons Sergeant at Arms.

“That will be a day that many Canadians, including myself, won’t

forget,” he said.Wilks will be visiting

Cranbrook and Creston the week of Dec. 15.  Thursday, Dec. 18 is a constituency day, where people can ar-range a meeting with MP Wilks. Then there is also an open house on Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 100 - B Cran-brook Street North.

“People can just drop in and have a chat with me,” he said.

The office will then close down for Christ-mas.

“Then we get back at it in January and during the month of January I’ll be focusing on the northern part of the riding, so revel stoke, Golden, Invermere, Nelson and then over to the West as well.

Wilks reflects on busy year

Cp photo

October 22 was a traumatic day for all Canadians. Wilks was in Parliament that day.

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ONGOING Help stop our wait list from growing!! Apply to be a Kimberley or Cranbrook Big Brother or Sister, “one hour a week or more”. 250-489-3111.‘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 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 / cdac@shaw.ca / www.cranbrookanddistrictartscouncil.comSupport 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.ICBL-Duplicate Bridge–Senior Center in Cranbrook. Mon & Wed 7pm, Thurs & Fri 1pm at Scout Hall, Marysville. Info: Maggie 250-417-2868.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 Assoc. welcome all citizens to play or learn to play. Call Neil 250-489-8107, Cathy 250-464-1903.East Kootenay Women Executives & Entrepreneurs (EKWEE) meet the fi rst Monday of every month at the Heritage Inn, Dining Room Annex, 7:00PM. Join us for of the menu dinner 5:30-7:00. Pay your own tab. Networking, share accomplishments, education. Bev Campbell 778-481-4883Mark 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! Help Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cranbrook: One way you can help is by donating to our “Blue Bin” located outside to the left of Wal- Mart. This bin is there for any clothing items or soft items. (250)489-3111 or email us at @bigbrothersbigsisters.caMasonic 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.Seniors Autobiographical Writing for those aged 60 or wiser at the Kimberley Library. No writing experience necessary. It’s free. Tuesdays 10:00 - Noon. Register: Kim Roberts CBAL Coordinator 250-427-4468 or kroberts@cbal.orgThe 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.CRANBROOK QUILTERS’ GUILD hold their meetings every 2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month at 7:15pm upstairs in the Seniors’ Hall, 125-17th Ave. S. Everyone welcome. Info: Donna at 250-426-7136.

UPCOMING2014 FREE FAMILY SWIM Wednesday, Dec 17th, 6:00-7:00pm is sponsored by Kimberley Rotary Club. Persons 18 years & younger must be accompanied by an adult.Weihnachtsgeschichten - Christmas Stories at the Kimberley Public Library. Neue und Alte Geschichten – New and Old Stories for adults and children age 5+. Thursday, December 18th at 7:00 p.m. Free! Sign up by December 15. Call 250-427-3112. The Royal Stewart Highland Dancers annual Christmas Charity Recital at the Heritage Inn Ballroom on Thursday, Dec.18 at 7:00 pm. Admission is by donation to the Cranbrook Salvation Army. Come out to see wonderful festive choreographies as well as traditional Highland and National dances. Contact Jane 250-427-8757 or email info@rshd.ca Dec. 20: Join the Rocky Mountain Naturalists for their annual Christmas Bird Count at 8:45 am at Elizabeth Lake Information Centre parking lot. This event will last til approx. 5:00 pm so bring a lunch, water and binoculars if you have them.SERVICE OF THE LONGEST NIGHT, Sunday, December 21, 7:00pm at Kimberley United Church, 10 Boundary St. A quiet, refl ective service with candlelighting, readings, and songs.Christmas Concert “A Glow in our Heart”, by the Children & Vera Choirs and Vera Instrumental Ensemble & Students. Cranbrook, Sunday, Dec 21, 2:30 p.m., United Church of Canada.

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Christmas is almost upon us friends,

and if you are any-thing like me, you are just starting to turn your attention to it. Amongst the enter-tainment items below you will find all kinds of gift ideas, from concert tickets to original artwork. Sup-port the arts with your Christmas shop-ping this year.

Cranbrook Library DisPLay

Case

The display in the Cranbrook Public Li-brary for December is a beautiful celebra-tion of Christmas by Kathy Simon

The CDAC Gallery and Office Closed for Holidays from Tues-day December 23rd – Saturday January 3rd. The CDAC Office and Gallery will be closed for the Holidays and Re-Open on Tuesday January 6th at Regu-lar Hours 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

afforDabLe art at key City

gaLLey

Artwork priced at $300 and under is fea-tured through to De-cember 20 at the Key City Theatre Gallery. Discover just the right gift for yourself or the art lover on your list. Artists include: Win Dinn, Laura Leeder, Jim Robertson, David Nixon, Janice Strong, Marg Skoberg, Jim Lawrence, “Yoki”, Neal Panton, Allan Kimmell, Tony & Twila Austin, Tara Mercer, Darlene Pur-nell, Wolfgang Kunze, Dorial Davis and more!

The Gallery is open Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 4:00

pm and during Key City Theatre perfor-mances. Visit our website at www.keyci-tytheatre.com or call 250-426-7006

nov. 25 to DeC. 20Christmas gift

show

Now in the gallery at Centre 64 Kimber-ley, a beautiful collec-tion of artworks from local and regional art-ists. Ceramic, felted wood, fibre art, hand-painted glassware, jewelry, leather, origi-nal paintings, art prints, photography and more.

symPhony on the mountain

On July 4, the Sym-phony of the Koote-nays will perform an outdoor concert at the top of North Star Mountain in Kimber-ley. Symphony on the Mountain tickets are $5.00 off for Christ-mas: $35 for concert, $70 for the gala and Youth $20. They are available now at Cen-tre 64 in Kimberley and Lotus Books in Cranbrook. Or see http://www.sympho-n y o n t h e m o u n t a i n .com/tickets.html

thur DeCember 18

highLanD DanCe

The Royal Stewart Highland Dancers present their annual

Christmas gifts for one and all

Christmas Charity Re-cital at the Heritage Inn Ballroom on Thursday, December 18 at 7:00 pm. Admis-sion is by donation to the Cranbrook Salva-tion Army. Come out to see wonderful fes-tive choreographies as well as traditional Highland and Nation-al dances. Contact Jane 250-427-8757 or email info@rshd.ca

sun. DeCember 21a gLow in

our hearts Christmas

ConCertJoin the Children

and Vera Choirs at the Cranbrook United Church for this spe-cial concert at 2:30 p.m.

sun. DeCember 28turkey run-off

Bring the family to Lois Creek trails in Kimberley for the an-nual Turkey Run-Off brought to you by the Kootenay Orienteer-ing Club. See koote-nayorienteering.com for more details.

DeCember 31 a maDD new

year’s eveMADD Kimberley

Cranbrook is pleased to present an alcohol free New Year’s Eve Dinner and Dance. 6 p.m. to midnight, Centennial Hall Kim-berley. Tickets are

available at Bear’s Eatery in Kimberley and Bridge Interiors in Cranbrook or call 1 - 8 0 0 - 6 6 5 - 6 2 3 3 . Adults $15, youth $10.

new year’s eve at the kimberLey

eLks CLub

New Year’s Eve will be celebrated at the Kimberley Elks Club this year with refresh-ments, appies and live music. Don Cherry for Prime Minister will be playing their final show. Tickets avail-able at the Elks Hall.

sunrise rotary fiLm series

Tickets for Whip-lash, the next movie in Sunrise Rotary’s Film Series are selling quickly. Another great idea for a Christ-mas gift! Whiplash is scheduled to play Thursday, January 8th 7:00 pm at the Colum-bia Theatre spon-sored by CIAO Tours. Tickets are on sale at Lotus Books, $10.00 or ($12.00 at the door if tickets left). Intense, i n s p i r i ng, a n d well-acted, Whiplash is a brilliant sopho-more effort from di-rector Damien Cha-zelle and a riveting vehicle for stars J.K. Simmons and Miles Teller. We are also selling our Silver and Gold Passes for the Film Festival which will be held in March of 2015. The Silver

($45) and Gold ($90) passes are on sale at Lotus Books for the Sunrise Rotary Rock-ies Film Festival scheduled for Thurs-day, March 5th, at the Key City with an Opening Reception and continuing on March 6th and 7th at the Columbia The-atre. Great for stock-ing stuffers for family and friends! Don’t miss out!

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Creston artist Win Dinn will get you hooked, whether you’re a mixed media artist, quilter, fabric artists, or just love to play with colour. For material list and more information call the Kimberley Arts Council or kimberley-arts.com

Jan. 6 to 31artageous Centre 64

In memory of Lou Wanak, this open ex-hibit features entries from regional artists that reflect ‘Lou Lou’s’ outrageous design sen-sibilities.

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it’s a beautiful view from the top of north Star Mountain. now imagine enjoying that view while lis-tening to a live symphony performance. You can this summer at Symphony on the Mountain. tickets are available now and would make a nice Christmas present.

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For “shall”, substitute “may”. For exam-ple, change “countries signing this climate change treaty SHALL state

how much they are going to cut their green-house emissions” to “countries signing this climate change treaty MAY state how much they are going to cut their emissions if they feel like it, but if they don’t, hey, no prob-lem.”

It’s like the old Irish joke. A lost traveller comes up to a local resident and asks how to get to Dublin. “Well, sir,” replies the local, “if that’s where you want to get to, I wouldn’t start from here.”

If you ask anybody in-volved in the climate change negotiations how to get to a global deal, you’ll probably get the same an-swer. “If that’s where you want to go, sir, you shouldn’t start from here.” But here is where we have to start from, like it or not. Which is what makes the negotiations so difficult.

The last preliminary meeting on a glob-al treaty to stop runaway climate change has just wound up in Lima, Peru, two days late. The final two days were spent water-ing down various parts of the text so that no country would just walk away. That’s where SHALL was changed to MAY, not once but many times. So quite a lot of the substance has been lost even before the final negotiations begin in Paris next De-cember.

It was bound to happen. That’s what diplomacy is for: devising some way of making the problem a little less bad even when a comprehensive deal that really solves the problem is impossible. But why is the comprehensive deal impossible? Because of the history.

There is a fair deal that well-informed people in every country would accept, and everybody involved in the climate negoti-ations knows what it is. Most parts of this deal were on the table at the last big cli-

mate summit in Copenhagen in 2009, but its political implications were so big that many governments simply ran away. The deal collapsed, and we lost five years.

Here’s the only deal that would be fair to everybody. The “old rich” countries — those that became industrialised coun-tries a hundred years ago or more — would make big cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions starting now: say, 40 per-cent cuts in the next ten years, or 4 percent a year.

That’s a lot, but it is achievable, because the demand for energy in most rich countries is al-ready in decline, and much of the energy that they do produce is wasted. Getting the first forty per-cent is not all that hard,

and cuts of that scale up front would give us much more time to work on the re-maining emissions.

This is not the part of the deal that drives the governments of the developed countries into headlong flight. It’s the other part, in which the developing coun-tries (the other six-sevenths of the world’s population) only have to cap their emis-sions for the next decade, not actually cut them.

You can legitimately ask the developing countries to cap their emissions, but you can’t insist that they stay poor. Even the biggest developing countries like China, India, Brazil and Indonesia are still com-paratively poor, and to give their people a developed-world living standard they will have to go on increasing their energy pro-duction for decades.

If they can’t do that by building more fossil-fuel plants (because they have capped their emissions), then they will have to do it by building more “clean” energy sources: wind, solar, nuclear, any-thing except coal, oil or gas.

Those “clean” energy sources are gen-

erally more expensive than the fossil fuels they used to depend on, so who covers the extra expense? Answer: the developed countries.

This is the deal killer. You cannot get the developing countries to cap their greenhouse gas emissions unless they get subsidies from the rich countries to help them build “clean” energy sources in-stead. And the developed countries regard this demand for subsidies ($100 billion a year was the figure on the table at Copen-hagen five years ago) as outrageous.

It is not really outrageous at all. In view of the history of greenhouse gas emissions, it is quite fair. But almost nobody in the developed countries knows that history.

It’s quite simple. The developed coun-tries are rich because they started burning fossil fuels between one and two hundred years ago and industrialised early. The developing countries only started burning fossil fuels in a big way thirty or forty years ago, and are still climbing out of poverty. So 80 percent of the greenhouse gases of human origin in the atmosphere were put there by the rich countries.

The rich countries caused this climate crisis; the developing countries only in-herited it. So the responsibility for dealing with it — and paying for it — rests mostly with those who caused it.

Until public opinion in the developed world understands that this deal is fair, no government in the rich world will dare to sign up for it. It would be political suicide. And until that deal is signed, no major developing country will agree to cap its emissions.

In the developing world, everybody who counts politically understands the history of greenhouse gas emissions very well. One does sometimes wonder if the rich world’s apparent ignorance of this history is a little bit self-serving.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist based in London

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Hot, hot, hotIce defeat Blazers to take three-game winning streak into break

Kootenay Ice Scoring SummaryTueSday, dec. 16

KamloopS BlazerS 2 aT KooTenay Ice 5

First Period 1. KTN - R. Valiev, (5) (V. Loschiavo, J. Martin), 15:37Second Period2. KAM - C. Shirley, (12) (L. McVeigh), 4:353. KAM - C. Shirley, (13) (unassisted), 11:31 (PP)4. KTN - J. Descheneau, (18) (Z. Zborosky, T. King), 15:05Third Period 5. KTN - T. King, (4) (J. Descheneau, L. Cable), 8:026. KTN - T. Bozon, (13) (R. Valiev, M. Alfaro), 8:557. KTN - R. Chynoweth, (2) (A. Vetterl, J. Martin), 13:22Shots 1 2 3 TKamloops Blazers 13 8 11 32Kootenay Ice 5 10 12 27Goaltenders Saves Mins SV%KAM - Connor Ingram 22/27 60:00 0.815KTN - Wyatt Hoflin 30/32 60:00 0.938Power playsKamloops Blazers 1/1 (100.0%)Kootenay Ice 0/1 (00.0%)Penalty shotsKamloops Blazers 0/0Kootenay Ice 0/1 - J. Descheneau (1st, 14:20)Three Stars: 1) T. King (KTN); 2) R. Valiev (KTN); 3) C. Shirley (KAM)Attendance: 2,176

Upcoming GamesDec. 27 vs. CalgaryDec. 28 at CalgaryDec. 30 at Medicine HatJan. 2 at Red DeerJan. 3 at EdmontonJan. 9 vs. Red Deer Jan. 10 vs. SaskatoonJan. 14 at Moose JawJan. 16 at Prince AlbertJan. 17 at SaskatoonJan. 20 vs. VancouverJan. 22 at EdmontonJan. 24 vs. Swift CurrentJan. 25 vs. Prince GeorgeJan. 28 at LethbridgeJan. 30 vs. Regina

Scoring StatisticsPlayer GP G A PTS PIM J. Descheneau 33 18 23 41 34 Luke Philp 34 13 22 35 10Tim Bozon 20 13 14 27 6Sam Reinhart 15 8 19 27 2Rinat Valiev 23 5 20 25 31Levi Cable 32 11 10 21 4Zak Zborosky 35 10 11 21 8Tyler King 31 4 11 15 21Matt Alfaro 35 5 8 13 14Austin Vetterl 35 3 10 13 30Jon Martin 20 3 8 11 29Troy Murray 35 2 7 9 14Ryan Chynoweth 35 2 6 8 28Tanner Faith 19 1 5 6 29Cale Fleury 34 0 6 6 4Vince Loschiavo 29 3 2 5 4Bryan Allbee 32 3 2 5 8River Beattie 29 2 2 4 19Dylan Overdyk 22 0 3 3 9Wyatt Hoflin 33 0 2 2 2Austin Wellsby 25 0 0 0 2

Goaltending StatisticsPlayer W L OTL SO GAA SPWyatt Hoflin 18 14 0 2 3.34 0.897 Keelan Williams 0 3 0 0 5.37 0.850

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Kootenay Ice forward Jaedon Descheneau draws a penalty shot during first-period action Tuesday night. The St. Louis Blues prospect was unable to capitalize, but cashed in at even strength in the second period as the Ice defeated the Kamloops Blazers 5-2.

Taylor rocc aSports Editor

With a 5-2 win over the Kamloops Blazers, the Kootenay Ice con-tinued to push up the WHL’s Eastern Confer-ence standings Tuesday night.

The win pushed the Ice beyond the .500-mark for the first time since September, as they head into the holi-day break 18-17-0-0 on the strength of a three-game winning streak.

“The most important thing was to get the win,” said Kootenay Ice head coach Ryan McGill Tuesday night. “It’s a tough game to play in. I told a lot of guys, ‘You’ve got to be intense and you’ve got to focus.’

“I thought we were way better in the third period than the first two periods when it mat-tered the most. That’s the sign of a good team.”

Defenceman Tyler King has been steady all season long for the Ice and Tuesday night was no exception. The 19-year-old product of Pilot Butte, Sask., took care of business at both ends of the rink, capped off with the game-win-ning goal 8:02 into the third period.

“Descheneau made a great play down low and I just crept in the backdoor a little bit,” King said following Tuesday’s win. “He was able to get it to me and I just got enough of it to get it into the net.”

The tally was King’s fourth of the campaign

and his second in as many games. The veter-an blueliner has 15 points in 31 games this season, good enough for second amongst Ice de-fencemen.

“I’ve just been trying to work as hard as I can to create plays,” King added. “All the guys have been really good. It’s easy to make plays on a team like this when you have skill up front. It’s nice.”

King has been with the Ice for a little less than a year after being acquired from the Spo-kane Chiefs Dec. 31, 2013, in exchange for forward Hudson Ely-nuik.

In 195 career WHL games between the Chiefs and Ice, King has produced 13 goals and 57 points. His career high came last season when he registered 20 points in 69 games be-tween the two clubs. The veteran defence-man is on pace to regis-ter 31 points this season, which would set a new career high.

King’s goal Tuesday night gave the Ice a 3-2 lead over the Blazers. A mere 57 seconds later, a former Blazer drove the dagger into the visitors, as 20-year-old Tim Bozon put a rebound past goaltender Connor Ingram for a 4-2 Koote-nay advantage.

“That goal was just a nice play. Alfaro got at the rebound, I got the second rebound and put it in the net,” Bozon said. “It’s always nice to score against your old squad.

“I had a lot of chanc-es I couldn’t bury [to-night]. I was on the ice a lot tonight, so maybe I missed, a little bit, some fresh legs to produce a little bit more offense.”

Bozon hasn’t had much difficulty produc-ing offense since return-ing to the Ice from the AHL’s Hamilton Bull-dogs. The native of Val-bonne, France, has been a force with 13 goals and 27 points through 20 games heading into the holiday break.

The Montreal Cana-diens prospect wasn’t the only player to score against his former club Tuesday night.

Collin Shirley gave the Blazers the lead with two goals in the first 11 minutes of the second period. After being draft-ed 17th overall by the Ice in the 2011 WHL Bantam Draft, the 18-year-old native of Saskatoon was dealt to Kamloops in the trade that brought French winger Tim Bozon to Cranbrook.

With his 18th goal of the campaign, Ice alter-nate captain Jaedon De-scheneau pulled his club even before time expired in the second period.

Descheneau was dangerous all night long, drawing a penalty shot in the first period.

Crossing the blue line and skating wide, the St. Louis Blues prospect cut back towards Ingram, going outside-in to fool the Blazers puck-stop-per. Unfortunately for Descheneau, he wasn’t able to fool the iron and the game remained

scoreless.After Bozon’s insur-

ance tally, forward Ryan Chynoweth registered his second in as many nights to further pad the host’s advantage and that was all the Ice need-ed.

Kootenay’s leading scorer from the blue line, Rinat Valiev, opened the festivities with 4:23 to play in the first period after his long wrist shot eluded Ingram.

Wyatt Hoflin, starting his 23rd consecutive game, made 30 saves for his 18th victory of the season. At the other end of the rink, Ingram made 22 stops.

“It definitely feels re-ally good [to be the go-to guy],” Hoflin said Tues-day. “It’s a change for me and I’ve adapted pretty well. There’s been some games where I’d like to have been a little bit better.

“I’ve handled it good

so far, I just have to make sure I continue that in the second half in the season.”

Hoflin is within two games of the Kootenay Ice franchise record for consecutive appearanc-es by a goaltender. For-mer Ice goaltender Todd Mathews holds the re-cord with 25 consecu-tive appearances (Jan. 21 to March 14. 2009).

Hoflin and the Ice head into a 10-day holi-day break holding down

seventh place in the WHL’s Eastern Confer-ence and fourth place in the Central Division after leap-frogging the Ed-monton Oil Kings (15-14-3-2) Tuesday night.

The Ice return to ac-tion Saturday, Dec. 27 when they host the Cal-gary Hitmen (19-11-1-2) at Western Financial Place.

Notes: The Kootenay Ice were without cap-tain Sam Reinhart (World Juniors) for the

third game…Ice D Dylan Overdyk (concussion) missed his 12th game…Ice D Tanner Faith (upper body) missed his fifth game…Ice F Matt Alfaro skated in his 100th WHL game…The Blazers went without LW Jesse Zaharichuk, D Brady Gaudet (upper body), D Michael Fora (World Juniors), LW Jer-maine Loewen (upper body) and D Connor Clouston...

Canada vaccinates ahead of World Junior Championship

STephen WhynoCanadian Press

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - Mem-bers of Canada’s world junior team have received booster shots to vaccinate against the mumps.

The virus has hit at least 14 players in the NHL this season, including Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Ryan Suter of the Minnesota Wild, Corey Perry of the Anaheim Ducks and Derick Brassard of the New York Rangers.

“I think we got to be careful,” head coach Benoit Groulx said. “It’s better to be precautionary than having a problem after. It’s more precautionary than any-thing else.”

Groulx said he was also getting the shot Monday.

The mumps outbreak caught the NHL off guard as it spread to several teams.

Those infected with mumps can have a fever, headaches, muscle aches, fatigue and loss of appetite, followed by the swelling

of salivary glands, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The mumps virus is spread through saliva or mucus, usually from coughing, sneezing or talking, according to the CDC.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Your creativity emerges when dealing with a schedule change. Reach out to an expert to learn how to be more effective in acquiring knowledge. Know that there are several different paths to the same goal. Trust in your ability to find a solution. Tonight: Playtime! LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Others might not be able to keep up with you; help make them feel more comfortable. Lighten up when dealing with an associate who always seems to have a problem. You could be rethinking a difficult situation. Perhaps the time to act is now. Tonight: Buy a favorite treat. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You need to understand what is happening around you. There could be a change of plans, or a meeting might last longer than you had anticipated. Your words seem to draw out the imagina-tive side of a friend or loved one. Tonight: Let it all hang out. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You need to listen to your in-tuition with a money matter.

You might not like what you’re hearing, but it would be wise to follow through. Make sure you can handle the fiscal require-ments of an investment. Choose a stressbuster. Tonight: Do some holiday shopping. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You could push yourself way beyond your limits and wonder why. A get-together promises quite a few possibilities, so you might want to make an ap-pearance. Make time to visit a special friend. This person will trigger many wild and creative ideas. Tonight: Loosen up. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You could seem closed down to others right now. In truth, you do have a lot on your mind. Even if you explain what is going on, someone still might feel as if he or she is being ignored. Just say that you are busy with holiday shopping. Tonight: Get some extra R and R. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You’ll have a lot to say and an audience that will listen. A meeting could be more signifi-cant than you realize. You might

need to think through a deci-sion involving a new friendship. Brainstorm with a close asso-ciate for ideas. Tonight: Follow the music. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Reach out to someone at a dis-tance. Use caution with funds, as you could lose money when you least expect to. It is possible that you will overspend or get a gift where the quality is less than what was promised. If you have a doubt, don’t spend a dime. Tonight: Out late. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You seem to make a difference wherever you go. Check out the facts, and make sure you’re heading in the right direction. Reach out to someone at a dis-tance to clear your mind for a while. You will get a fresh per-spective as a result. Tonight: Go caroling or share some eggnog. BORN TODAY Pope Francis (1936), actress Milla Jovovich (1975), mixed martial artist Chuck Liddell (1969) ***

Dear Annie: I have two teenage children from a previous marriage. For the past 12 years, they have lived with their mother 90 miles away, and I have visitation every other weekend and alternate holidays, etc. I have always exercised visitation faithfully and have a good relationship with both of them. This year, my daughter has rarely come for weekend visits. She is socially active and has things to do with her friends on week-ends and says she’d rather be with them. My son comes regularly. For the past few years, I’ve given my kids money for Christmas and birthdays so they can buy whatever they want. I always give them the same amount. Now I think I should give my daughter less because she is essentially cutting me (and her grand-parents) out of her life. I have told her how much we miss seeing her on a regular basis, and she doesn’t seem to care. I talk to the kids regularly by phone, and they both seem to enjoy telling me about their lives and events. Their mother and I are not on speaking terms. She can be irra-tional and is unwilling to help me. If my daughter thinks my side of the fami-ly is not worth her time, then she shouldn’t expect to be treated the same as her broth-er. My parents also have been generous to my children, and they agree. They are my parents’ only grandchildren. Am I wrong to give them different amounts? -- Dad Dear Dad: Please don’t. Your daughter is a teenager, and like many teens, she has an active social life that is more important to her than either parent. She isn’t trying to marginalize you or cut you off, and if you punish her this way, it will create lifelong resentment for what is a temporary prob-lem. Consider making some changes to the visitation schedule so that her weekends are freer. Or perhaps, to make up for few-er weekends, you can have more of her vacation time. Look into activities in your area (rock concerts, etc.) that might appeal to her. Offer to let her bring a friend for a weekend once in awhile. Explain that you miss her and so do her grandparents, and ask how to make this work. She will appre-ciate your flexibility, and in the long run, it will do your relationship good. Dear Annie: I have an estranged sister, and we haven’t spoken in 20 years. Family members are always concerned at wed-dings and funerals that there will be a “scene” if both of us are invited. I feel these events are not the time or place for family squabbles. However, at our grandmother’s funeral, I simply ignored my sister. But she insisted that she wanted a hug from me. I simply and politely told her “no.” She stormed out, crying all the way. I have nothing to do with this woman. I don’t make scenes at family gatherings and couldn’t care less if she’s there or not. So why is it that the majority of my family sees ME as the bad guy? -- Couldn’t Care Less in Idaho Dear Idaho: Because your sister enjoys giving the impression that she wants to rec-oncile, making you seem heartless. If you don’t care, then this shouldn’t matter to you. But we will say that after 20 years, you might want to see whether a reconciliation is possible. People can change, and being estranged from a sibling can take a toll. Dear Annie: This is for “Taking Care of Everything in Iowa,” the sister who is car-ing for her parents without help from her siblings, who tell her to get a full-time job. She already has a full-time job. My family just went through this. Dad and his wife had 24/7 caregivers, costing nearly $4,000 a month. If they want her to find full-time work elsewhere, are they willing to pay for 24/7 caregivers? I doubt it. “Taking Care” has my utmost respect. -- Just a Guy Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitch-ell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Cre-ators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, vis-it the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.COPYRIGHT 2014 CREATORS.COM

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stan - Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in the northwest-ern Pakistani city of Pe-shawar on Tuesday, kill-ing at least 141 people, mostly children, before Pakistani officials de-clared a military opera-tion to clear the school over.

The overwhelming majority of the victims were students at the school, which instructs grades 1-10. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif condemned the assault and rushed to Peshawar to show his support for the victims.

As darkness fell on the area, officials said they had cleared the school of militants.

A Pakistani military spokesman, Asim Bajwa, said 141 people died in the attack - 132 children and nine staff members. He declared the operation over and said the area had been cleared. An additional 121 students and three staff members were wounded.

He said seven attack-ers, all wearing explo-sives vests, all died in the assault. It was not immediately clear if the militants were all killed by the soldiers or wheth-er they blew themselves up, he said. Bajwa de-scribed an assault that seemed designed purely to terrorize the children rather than take anyone hostage to further the militant group’s aims.

“Their sole purpose, it seems, was to kill those innocent kids. That’s what they did,” he said.

The horrific attack, claimed by the Teh-reek-e-Taliban, a Paki-stani militant group try-ing to overthrow the government, sent doz-ens of wounded flood-ing into local hospitals as terrified parents searched for their chil-dren.

“My son was in uni-form in the morning. He is in a casket now,” wailed one parent, Tahir Ali, as he came to the hospital to collect the body of his 14-year-old son Abdullah. “My son was my dream. My dream has been killed.”

The attack began in the morning when the gunmen entered the school and started shooting at random. Army commandos quickly arrived at the

Taliban attack Pakistani school, killing 141 people, mostly children

scene and started ex-changing fire with the gunmen. Students wearing green school uniforms could be seen fleeing the area on Paki-stani television.

Outside the school, two loud booms of un-known origin were heard coming from the scene in the early after-noon, as Pakistani troops battled with the attackers. Armored per-sonnel carriers were de-ployed around the school grounds, and a Pakistani military heli-copter circled overhead.

Pakistani television showed soldiers sur-rounding the area and pushing people back. Ambulances streamed from the area to local hospitals.

The prime minister vowed that the country would not be cowed by the violence and that the military would con-tinue with an aggressive operation launched in June to rout militants from the North Wa-ziristan tribal area.

“The fight will con-tinue. No one should have any doubt about it,” Sharif said.

Bajwa said that 1,099 students and staff were registered at the school.

It is part of a network of schools run by the Pa-kistani military around the country. The stu-dent body is made up of both children of military personnel as well as ci-vilians. A government official, Javed Khan, said most of the students ap-peared to be civilians rather than children of army staff. But analysts said the militants likely targeted the school be-cause of its military con-nections.

“It’s a kind of a mes-sage that we can also kill your children,” said Pa-kistani analyst Zahid Hussain.

One of the wounded students, Abdullah Jamal, said that he was with a group of 8th, 9th and 10th graders who were getting first-aid in-structions and training with a team of Pakistani army medics when the violence began for real.

When the shooting started, Jamal, who was shot in the leg, said no-body knew what was going on in the first few seconds.

“Then I saw children falling down who were crying and screaming. I also fell down. I learned later that I have got a bullet,” he said, speak-

ing from his hospital bed.

Another student, Amir Mateen, said they locked the door from the inside when they heard the shooting but gunmen blasted through the door any-way and opened fire.

In a phone call to re-porters, Taliban spokes-man Mohammed Khu-rasani claimed respon-sibility for the attack, saying the suicide bombers carried it out to avenge the killings of Taliban members at the hands of Pakistani au-thorities.

Peshawar has been the target of frequent militant attacks in the past but has seen a rela-tive lull recently.

The Pakistani mili-tary launched the mili-tary operation in the nearby North Waziristan tribal area in June, vow-ing that it would go after all militant groups that had been operating in the region. With the launch of the operation, security officials and ci-vilians feared retribu-tion by militants but until Tuesday, a wide-spread backlash had failed to materialize.

Tuesday’s attack calls into question whether

the militants have been crippled by the military or will be able to re-group. This appeared to be the worst attack in Pakistan since a 2007 suicide bombing in the port city of Karachi killed 150 people.

The violence also un-derscored the vulnera-bility of Pakistani schools, which was dra-matically exposed in the attack two years ago on Malala Yousafzai, a Pa-kistani girl shot in the head by a Taliban gun-man outside her school in the Swat Valley for daring to speak up about girls’ rights. She survived, becoming a Nobel Prize laureate and global advocate for girls’ education but out of security concerns has never returned to Paki-stan.

Militants have also blown up schools in the northwest.

“I am heartbroken by this senseless and cold blooded act of terror in Peshawar that is unfold-ing before us,” said Malala in a statement.

Associated Press writers Asif Shahzad and Rebecca Santana in Islamabad, and Danica Kirka in London con-tributed to this report.

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jobs.Last fall, some First

Nations in northeast B.C. issued the govern-ment an ultimatum, say-ing it must decide be-tween developing the liquefied natural gas in-dustry or Site C. They can’t have both, they said.

The proposed dam is located in the heart of the province’s natural gas fields, where drilling will occur and pipelines to B.C. northwest will be built.

A recent letter sent by the Treaty 8 Tribal Asso-ciation in Fort St. John to Bennett and Finance

Minister Mike de Jong said the First Nation is convinced Site C is not the most economic al-ternative and “involves unacceptable and un-necessary risks.”

The association also sent along a consultants report it commissioned that said there would be no need for new elec-tricity resources in B.C. until 2027 if other re-sources methods were used.

The project has been undergoing public re-views and consultations with First Nations, com-munities and stakehold-ers since 2007.

The Crown Owned BC Hydro said it reached a major milestone re-cently when it received federal and provincial environmental certifi-cates - as long as more than 80 conditions are met before it proceeds.

Last spring’s joint re-view panel report weigh-ing the project found the dam would cause signif-icant adverse effects on the environment and wildlife, as well as ab-originals, farmers and other users of the Peace River valley.

But the benefits are clear and the alterna-tives, few, the panel ap-

pointed by the Canadian Environmental Assess-ment Authority said in its 471-page report.

The panel gave no clear yes or no answer, but said B.C. will need new energy and new ca-pacity at some point. The dam on the Peace River would provide a large amount of inex-pensive power, low in greenhouse gas emis-sions, it said.

BC Hydro’s environ-mental impact report is-sued last year concluded a diverse range of wild-life species, including birds, bats, butterflies and fish destined to suf-

fer habitat destruction from Site C, but the utili-ty has plans to reduce and prevent harm to area wildlife and ecosys-tems.

Among Hydro’s mea-sures to reduce the po-tential loss from its pro-posed project are special protective crossings for amphibians, slower turning turbines that allow fish escapes and fish-free wetlands to permit safer breeding for dragonflies.

Hydro identified in its environmental im-pact statement what it called 22 valued compo-nents that are expected

to undergo some level of change due to the proj-ect. They include agri-culture, transportation, outdoor recreation and tourism, air quality, noise and vibration, her-itage resources and human health.

The environmental impact statement also forecasts flooding more than 5,000 hectares of land, of which at least 3,800 hectares is agricul-tural land. The project will also flood First Na-tions heritage sites and force up to 20 families - many life-long ranchers - to move.

BC Hydro

Site C dam project design has been changed to eliminate a separate bridge across the Peace River, and confine construction camp to one side of the river. Two temporary dams would have to be built to divert the river and allow construction of the main dam.

Dirk MeissnerCanadian Press

VICTORIA — The British Columbia gov-ernment is pushing ahead with the contro-versial $8.5 billion Site C hydroelectric dam on the Peace River in the province’s northeast.

Premier Christy Clark said Tuesday her gov-ernment arrived at the decision after very care-ful analysis.

“It was not an easy decision to come to. In order for our economy to grow, we need to en-sure there is power.”

Clark said the dam will bring clean, reliable and affordable power to the province.

While the province is the leader in North American in energy con-servation, Clark said that doesn’t eliminate the need for new energy.

“Is going to benefit British Columbians for generations,” she told a crowd in Victoria.

Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett said the decision to go ahead with the project is what’s best for ratepay-ers and what’s best for B.C.

The dam would be the third on the Peace River, flooding 5,550 hectares of land over an 83-kilometre stretch of valley and it ranks as B.C.’s most expensive public project.

Bennett said he doesn’t expect First Na-tions to publicly endorse Site C, but he was hope-ful benefit agreements could be negotiated. He said First Nations com-panies and people could profit greatly from the project through con-struction contracts and

Province green lights Site C dam

seth BorensteinAssociated Press

WASHINGTON - U.S. meteorologists say last month was only the globe’s seventh warmest Novem-ber on record. That’s the first time since July that a month hasn’t broken the record for heat. Still, Na-tional Oceanic and Atmo-spheric Administration cli-mate monitoring chief Deke Arndt says after 11 months, 2014 is likely to break the annual heat re-cord set in 2010. It was the

hottest September to No-vember on record.

If December is at least 0.76 degrees (0.42C) warm-er than the 20th century average, then 2014 will set the global record. Since 2000, December has aver-aged 0.95 degrees (0.53C) warmer than that standard.

Arndt said the world’s oceans set a new monthly heat record in November, the seventh time in a row, making it more likely that 2014 will set the heat re-cord.

World only 7th warmest on record in November, but globe on track to smash heat record Marcia Dunn

Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA’s Mars rover, Curiosity, has detected spikes of meth-ane in the planet’s atmo-sphere. That suggests some-thing is producing or venting the scientifically tantalizing gas, but no one knows what.

Most of Earth’s atmospher-ic methane comes from ani-mal and plant life, and the environment itself. So the Martian methane raises the question of past or present microbial life. Or the gas ele-vations could come from geo-logical sources, comet im-

Curiosity rover detects spikes of methane in Mars atmosphere not necessarily biology-based

pacts or something else en-tirely.

The latest study, released Tuesday by the journal Sci-ence, indicates there’s less than half the expected amount of methane in the atmosphere around Curiosi-ty’s location in Gale Crater. But over a full Martian year, the rover measured fairly fre-quent occurrences of elevat-ed methane levels - tenfold

increases.“This temporary increase

in methane - sharply up and then back down - tells us there must be some relatively localized source,” the Univer-sity of Michigan’s Sushil Atreya, part of the Curiosity team, said in a statement. “There are many possible sources, biological or non-bi-ological, such as interaction of water and rock.”

In addition, Curiosity de-tected other organic mole-cules when it drilled into a rock. Scientists said it’s be-lieved to be the first confir-mation of organic carbon in a Martian rock. The identity of the organic material is un-known.

The Jet Propulsion Labo-ratory’s Christopher Webster led the international study of methane.