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It’s Playoff season in the WHL, and the Kootenay Ice are in the thick of it against arch-rivals Calgary Hitmen. Above: Jon Martin of the Ice can’t put one past Hitmen goalie Brendan Burke during Game 1 action in Calgary, on Friday, March 27. Game 2 played out Sunday night, and now the action shifts to Cranbrook. See more, Page 7. Photo by Lyle Aspinall
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New life in Canada for Nahom Teklemichael TREVOR CRAWLEY
Scanning the faces in the crowd of passengers heading into the arrival section of the Canadian Rockies International Airport, a local family began to wonder if their friend had missed his flight. However, smiles broke out as one of the last travel-
lers, a young man, descended down the stairs to make his way into the building. His name is Nahom Teklemichael and he is a refugee from Eritrea. After a long journey from South Sudan in Africa, Teklemichael arrived in Vancouver on Wednesday and into
Cranbrook on Thursday where he will begin a new life in Canada. Just in time for his 22nd birthday on Monday. Teklemichael was sponsored by East Kootenay Friends of Burma, and while he isn’t from the small Southeast Asia country of the same name, he has a personal con-
nection with some local volunteers with the group. Kim Eaton and Barb Ryeburn were in Eritrea—a small country in the Horn of Africa—volunteering as teachers in the mid-2000s where they met Teklemichael, who became close friends with their oldest son, Lukas. They’ve
remained in contact ever since that trip—including through Teklemichael’s experience fleeing Eritrea for South Sudan. Recently, the EK Friends of Burma was able to secure sponsorship to bring him over to Canada. Now, he will be living with the same fami-
ly who befriended him in his home country so many years ago. Now that Teklemichael is here in Cranbrook, the EK Friends of Burma will be there to help him settle into a new life.
See ERITREAN, Page 4