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Volume 68, No. 8 | Thursday, February 25, 2016
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BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff Four members of the Creston Judo Club are Penticton bound to compete in the BC Winter Games, which run today through Sunday. Brae Booth, Kyle Qualtieri, Kaeden Rendek and Joseph Albert will be part of an 11-member Kootenay judo team that includes athletes from Invermere and Fernie. Male and female Winter Games participants in judo must be 14-16 years of age. Brae Booth, 14, will fight in the U-16 under 70-kilogram female
class. Only three weeks ago she brought home a silver medal from the B.C. championships in Kamloops. Booth has been a judo enthusiast for six years, starting out “because I needed a sport” in Prince George. She continued with the sport until her family moved to Creston and is at the Creston dojo three times a week, going to tournaments whenever she gets the chance. Kyle Qualtieri, 14, said on Monday evening at the dojo that he developed a passion for the sport soon after he took it up eight years ago.
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“And it’s something to do after school,” he smiled. Qualtieri heads into the Winter Games as a B.C. champion, having won gold in his U-15 under 66-kilogram age and weight class in Kamloops. That victory followed up a silver medal in the Saskatchewan provincial championships earlier. Kaeden Rendek, 15, is the only Creston judoka making a return to the Winter Games. In Mission two years ago, he won a gold medal in his U-16 under 46-kilogram class.
With 300 regular attendees, averaging about 210, each Sunday, the Erickson Covenant Church congregation has been finding space rather tight. But starting March 6, there will be a bit more breathing room, when the church begins offering two services, at 9:15 and 11:15 a.m., spreading out the members and allowing the recent increase to continue. “It’s kind of like a family that kept growing and their house was never expanded,” said pastor Tom Greentree, who has been with the church for nearly five years. “Everyone sees the need, everyone feels the need,” added Jo-Ann Ewing, the children and family ministry pastor.
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