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FEBRUARY 5, 2016
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Sleeping Beauty
BARRY COULTER PHOTO
Dancers Taylor Gill and Kealan McLaughlin are pictured in rehearsal, prior to Ballet Jörgen’s production of “Sleeping Beauty.” The renowned Canadian ballet company presented the classic story to a sold-out house at the Key City Theatre in Cranbrook, Thursday, February 4.
City looking for group to take on Canada Day TRE VOR CR AWLEY
The City of Cranbrook is looking for a community organization to step up and take the lead on Canada Day celebrations. Connect Church has organized the event for the past two years, which the city calls the largest and most successful events the city has ever seen, however, the church isn’t able to do it again this year. The issue was raised at Monday evening’s city council by Cranbrook’s CAO Wayne Staudt. On occasion, there have been years where the City has not been able to
secure a community group to run the event. During those years, previous councils have directed staff to provide a smaller scale celebration that has included a Music in the Park event during the day at Rotary Park, followed by a standalone fireworks show at Moir Park. Staff are prepared to host this type of event if required, however, despite the lack of a community organization to organize an event, the city is still pursuing grant funding from the provincial and federal governments.
See CANADA DAY, Page 5
Here there be Dragons
Producers looking for Cranbrook, Kootenay entrepreneurs to audition for popular TV show ‘Dragon’s Den’ BARRY COULTER
Entrepreneurs, your time has come! Producers for the acclaimed CBC reality show “Dragons’ Den” are touring the country, holding auditions for small business entrepreneurs and inventors, to find participants to walk boldly into the dragons’ den. And that tour is coming to Cranbrook, Feb. On “Dragons’ Den, selected
participants pitch business and investment ideas to a panel of five venture capitalists — the Dragons — in the hope of securing business financing and partnerships. Successful pitchers will have a chance to earn real investment — from the Dragons’ own pockets. Molly Middleton, Senior Producer for “Dragons’ Den, spoke to the Daily Townsman on Thursday, and said the show
likes to switch up audition locations from year to year. “We always try to go to new places — every year we add a couple of different cities and drop other cities,” Middleton said. “If you keep going year after year to the same places you deplete the entrepreneurs, because there’s not that much of a transient population.”
See DRAGON’S, Page 3