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Mounties get their man at Fort Steele CST K ATIE FORGERON Cranbrook RCMP
Two subjects arrested and thousands of dollars of stolen property were recovered in Fort Steele on Friday, Aug 29.
Between August 27 and 30, the Cranbrook RCMP responded to a marked increase of property related offences. Several businesses and vehicles were broken into with the main
commodity stolen being high end construction tools. On August 29, the Cranbrook RCMP were called to a local pawn shop where a male was attempting to pawn sev-
eral stolen items. When the male determined that staff were contacting the RCMP, he entered his truck and proceeded to ram two separate vehicles in an attempt to leave. The
male managed to get past the vehicles and fled the area. A short time after the vehicle left, and with the assistance of the community of Fort Steele, a male and female were
located and arrested at the Fort Steele Campground. A truck and travel trailer were seized and a search warrant was obtained for both. As a result of the search
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Forestry workers feel slighted in IWA pension deal ARNE PETRYSHEN Townsman Staff
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CHALLENGE ACCEPTED: College of the Rockies president David Walls gets soaked as part of completing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on Tuesday afternoon outside the college campus. Walls—who was nominated by Angus Graeme, president of Selkirk College—threw out the challenge to Cranbrook mayor Wayne Stetski. Other members of the COTR’s senior management staff also completed the challenge last week. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has become a viral sensation on social media, with celebrities, politicians and athletes dumping ice water over themselves and nominating others to complete the challenge within 24 hours. ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), also known as Lou Gerhig’s disease, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. For more information on ALS and the Ice Bucket Challenge, visit www.alsa.org.
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warrants, close to $200,000 worth of stolen property was located, including the travel trailer worth an estimated $47,000.
A group of former forestry workers feel they have been slighted in a move by the IWA Forest Industry Pension Plan. Stephen Thacker, one of those workers, said because of an amendment made by trustees, he and other workers will no longer be paid out the commuted value of their pension. The letter that Thacker and others received earlier this year read: “When you terminated your membership you were told that a payment of the balance of your commuted value would be paid out five years from the initial payment. This is no longer the case. Effective March l, 2014, the Trustees will no longer be making these balance payments. Therefore, if you are expecting a balance payment after March 1,
2014, this payment has been eliminated.” Thacker said he wants others affected by this change to know about it and band together to perhaps do something. “There’s supposed to be 2,500 people that this is affecting at least,” Thacker said. “I just want to find these people and get them on board.” He said he has a local law firm looking into it and was also recently approached by a group from the Lower Mainland. That group is seeking legal advice from a speciality lawyer for pensions. They are now waiting to find out from the two lawyers what their next move should be. “Basically that’s a contract — how can you go back on that?” Thacker said.
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