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City Council supports wine sales in local grocery stores T R E VO R C R AW L E Y
City council is hoping to get one of six special wine store licenses into a grocery store in Cranbrook that will sell 100 per cent B.C. wine on store shelves. Raised by Councillor Wes Graham and Tom Shypitka at a regular meeting on Monday, city council agreed to send a letter to Coralee Oakes, the minister of small business and red tape reduction, to lobby for one of the special licenses. “It’s a great initiative, but it seems a little uncertain that there isn’t regional representation on the lottery in these things. On the coast and in the larger areas, you have specialty shop niches, where in the rural areas, as Wes Graham said, it’s a little hard to come by. So a letter to Minister Oakes would be good to see if there’s any kind of way that we can ensure that maybe
one of these licenses comes to the Kootenays or maybe somehow reform their distribution method. Council received a letter from Oakes in late February explaining the new initiative. “Initially, we will auction six opportunities to apply for the special wine store license, an approach which will ensure fairness and transparency,” wrote Oakes. “The successful bidders will then proceed through the regular application process to obtain the license. Only grocery stores which meet the specified regulatory criteria will be eligible to bid. These criteria include that the store be a minimum of 10,000 sq. feet and be focused on food sales; these same criteria apply to the relocation of the other types of wine and liquor stores to grocery stores.”
See COUNCIL, Page 3
BARRY COULTER PHOTO
Something very strange is happening to the actors of the new murder-mystery “Putting a Little English On It,” and that is the actors are actually dying. Parkland Middle School is in rehearsal for the play “Murder Mystery at the Murder Mystery” — seems like they may have to use their murder mystery skills to get to the bottom of it. See more, Page 5.
Avalanche go 1-2 at Nationals BARRY COULTER
The College of the Rockies Avalanche Ladies Volleyball squad made their first appearance at the country’s top tournament, travelling to Charlottetown Prince Edward Island last week for CCAA Women’s Volleyball
National Championships. The Avs defeated the Vancouver Island University Mariners the week previously at the Provincial championships, a first in College history (the Men’s squad finished fourth at the provincial tournament in Abbots-
ford). However, it was the Mariners, who also qualified for Nationals, who came away with the Gold Medal, defeating the Élans de Garneau from Quebec City in the final on Saturday. The Avs ended up win-
ning the placement match Saturday, over the Mount St. Vincent University Mystics. The Avs opened the tournament Thursday in tough against the King’s University College Eagles (Edmonton), with the Eagles taking the Avs in three sets, and ad-
vancing to the Gold semi-finals. The Avs met the host Holland College Hawks in the Bronze semi-finals on Friday, and came out on the short end of a five-set thriller, losing three sets to two. On Friday, the Avs made
short work of the Mystics, finishing their tournament with a three sets to one victory. The Townsman congratulates the College of the Rockies Avalanche for their accomplishments this season.