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Family escapes as cabin explodes C A RO LYN G R AN T
A family vacation at a mountain cabin ended in near tragedy on Wednesday, August 13, after a propane explosion destroyed a cabin. Cpl. Ayers of the Columbia Valley RCMP Detachment says members from
both his detachment and the Kimberley Detachment attended the scene at Whitetail Lake, at kilometre 26 on the Finlay Creek Forest Service Road. “Some time after 4 in the morning on August 13 one of the rental cabins at White-
tail exploded,” Ayers told the Bulletin. “The roof blew off and the cabin is demolished.” Ayers says two families from Britain had rented what he described as a duplex type cabin. He says in spite of the se-
verity of the explosion, all eight people were accounted for. “One boy, 10 to 12 years old, was flown to Calgary with lacerations, but not life-threatening,” Ayers said. Ayers says the boy was actually blown out the sec-
ond floor window when the cabin exploded. He was found by neighbouring tourists from another cabin. “It was just very, very fortunate that he survived, that everyone got out,” Ayers said. “It could have been tragic.”
He says that police are fairly certain that propane was the cause of the explosion. “We can’t prove it — there’s nothing left of the cabin — but we are confident that it was a propane explosion.”
Winston Blackmore
MIKE TURNER PHOTO
Blackmore gives statement following polygamy charges FOR THE TOWNSMAN
TREVOR CRAWLEY PHOTO
JAM SESSION: Shannon Duncan and Christel Hagn work together to turn choke cherries into jam at a workshop on Wednesday evening at the Cranbrook Eagles Hall organized by Cranbrook Food Action and Wildsight Kimberley/Cranbrook. The workshop, Canning the Sweet Stuff, included roughly a dozen participants that were learning how to can fruit butters, jams, jellies and whole fruit preservatives. The next workshops will kick off in October.
Program puts low need clients in touch with nurses by phone ARNE PETRYSHEN Townsman Staff
A program that helps independent seniors stay at home longer is having a positive impact in the region, according to Interior Health. The Surveillance Nurse program uses remote tele-
phone checks to connect nurses with clients. It was implemented six months ago. Sharon Whitby, Home Health Practice Lead for IHA said the program helps clients remain in their own homes and avoid hospital admissions. “It’s care management and
support by telephone and connecting with these clients on a regular basis depending on their needs,” Whitby explained. “They might be calling them weekly, monthly, but they have to touch base with them every three months to see how they are doing. When
they do connect with this family or their support group, they work with the client to develop a health improvement plan based on what the client feels is the greatest need at the moment.”
See NURSING, Page 3
Two leaders of an polygamous religious community in B.C. have been charged for the second time with practising polygamy. Winston Blackmore and James Oler, who lead separate factions in the community of Bountiful, one hour west of Cranbrook, were each charged Wednesday with one count of polygamy. Winston Blackmore was in Cranbrook on Thursday, and gave a statement on the matter to Mike Turner of Global News. “Yesterday being August the 13, 2014, after learning that the RCMP was looking for me, I went into the local detachment of the RCMP in Creston at 7 o’clock, at which time I surrendered my passport, and was charged with the same charge I was charged with five and a half years ago — that being polygamy, and nothing more,” Blackmore said. “Anyone who knows anything at all about the original doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints, which is the doctrine I follow, knows good and well that the principle of plural marriage and congregational living, where people work together for the good of the whole with a common view of taking care of everybody is part of that doctrine. Those are basic foundations of my faith. “There is really nothing more to be said.” Blackmore also told Turner that “I certainly get tired of this constant legal battle.”