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RCMP recover stolen car with infant inside RCMP
Two Cranbrook residents helped bring a frightening event to a happy conclusion, after they saw that baby in a vehicle was in a perilous situation. On Saturday, January 9, at 10:47 am Cranbrook RCMP received a frantic report of a stolen vehicle with a fourmonth-old infant inside.
Driver arrested; charged with Child Abduction, Impaired Driving
Police investigation revealed the complainant was travelling from Trail to Kimberley when she ran into a female acquaintance in Fruitvale who requested a ride. The complainant left the vehicle running with both passenger and her daughter inside as she briefly went into
a Cranbrook residence. The car was gone when she came out, and she immediately called 9-1-1. Shortly after, Cranbrook RCMP received a report of an impaired driver with fresh vehicle damage at the Tamarack mall parking lot which turned out to be the same
stolen vehicle. Two Cranbrook citizens quickly identified the safety concern with the infant’s presence and provided assistance while phoning police. RCMP members were quick to respond and returned the unharmed infant immediately to her mother.
The driver was arrested at scene and transported to Cranbrook RCMP cells. Cranbrook RCMP are proposing several Criminal Charges including Child Abduction, Impaired Driving and Refusing to Provide a Breath Sample. The 24-year-old Fruitvale resident will appear before a
Judicial Justice of the peace on Monday, January 11. The investigation is ongoing and includes assistance from the Ministry of Children and Family Development. Cranbrook RCMP applaud the actions of the two citizens in the quick and safe return of the child in a situation that could very well have ended tragically.
City signing over old clockworks ARNE PETRYSHEN
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Meg Magrath (left, played by Marsha Blom) and her sister Babe Botrelle (Karly Ross) share a laugh at their home in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, despite the fact Babe is facing charges of attempted murder. “Crimes of the Heart,” directed by Paul Kershaw, opens at the Key City Theatre in Cranbrook January 14, and runs through January 16 and and again January 21-23. Showtimes at 7:30 pm. This southern gothic tale tells the story of three young Mississippi sisters betrayed by their passions.
The City of Cranbrook will be signing over the old clockworks to the Cranbrook History Centre. The clockworks in the Rotary Clock Tower were recently replaced with new digital clockworks, though the vintage mechanisms will remain in place for storage for at least the foreseeable future. That’s according to a letter included in the Jan. 4 council meeting agenda sent by Dave Humphrey, volunteer at the Cranbrook History Centre Archives, back in December. Mayor Lee Pratt explained the situation at the meeting. “Basically, for the public’s information, the old clock has been replaced with a digital clock,” Pratt said at the meeting. “The Rotary Club and the Cranbrook History Centre, they want to maintain the old clockworks to keep them. They were lost one time before and they just want the
city to hand them over to them.” Pratt noted the two groups would take responsibility of making sure where the clockworks are. Humphrey said in the letter that he became concerned with the fate of the Old Post Office Clockworks when he read a story about the upcoming replacement in the Townsman earlier in December. He noted that the clockworks have been lost in the past when the Old Post Office was torn down in 1971. The City was offered the clockworks and the bell, but declined and, if not for the person in charge of demolishing the building putting it in storage at Fort Steele, they would have been lost. Then when the clock tower was built a decade later, the clockworks and bell were installed. Humphrey said the clock was installed between 1912 and 1913.