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BARRY COULTER PHOTO
The long WHL season came to a close in Cranbrook Friday, and for the 18th year in a row the Kootenay Ice celebrated their players with Awards Night, ahead of their match-up with the Calgary Hitmen in the final home game of the year. Pictured: Ice President and GM Jeff Chynoweth presents goaltender Wyatt Hoflin with the Rod Hunter Ltd Players Award. This award is voted on by the players and awarded to the player showing perseverance, dedication and commitment to the game of hockey. See morein Sports, Page 8, and Tuesday’s Daily Townsman. for a special photo feature.
Two golds for Chernove at world championships TRE VOR CR AWLEY
Cranbrook resident Tristen Chernove is a double gold-medalist at the Para-cycling Track World Championships in Montichieri, Italy, capturing the top spot in two separate events over two days of competition. Chernove won his first medal on
Thursday in the Men’s C2 1 Kilometre Time Trial with a time of 1:13.279, while notching his second medal on Friday in the Men’s Individual Pursuit with a time of 3:43.609. Chernove was competing in his first ever Track World’s event.
See CHERNOVE, Page 3
School Board couldn’t be happier with return of long form census FOR THE TOWNSMAN
May, 2016, will see the return of the mandatory, long form census and the trustees of School District 5 couldn’t be happier. Board Chair Frank Lento said census information is vital for planning services at all government levels from provincial education funding and skills training to local day care, police and fire
protection services. “The V-NHS removed the ability to make sound decisions based on accurate information, forcing the provincial government into the untenable position of having to guess where to spend public tax dollars and allocate needed resources,” Lento said. The mandatory, long form census was first enacted by Par-
liament in 1870 to provide accurate data about Canadians, enabling the Federal Government to plan public services such as health care, education, transportation etc., inform federal transfer payments and determine the equitable number of MPs for each province and territory.
See LONG FORM, Page 3