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September 14th, 2016 ~ Vol. 85 No. 36

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- Gathering for
  community plant swap
- Teen Amazing race
  excitement
- Green thumbs gather
  for community plant
  swap
- RCMP Major Crimes
  Unit seek information
  in murder of Victoria
  Crow Shoe
- Coal Mountain closure
  update
- RCMP Stats
- Classifieds
- Puzzle Page
- August Market Report
- Pincher and Pass
  collaborate to bring
  TIFF to theatres
- RCMP fish unique
  catch out of river
- “That old barn...”
- Is Hunting Good for
  Wildlife?
- Question of the Week
- Why Mount that trophy?
- The Myth about
  Hunting Experts
- Ground turning for
  APP Barracks
- Golf course clearing
  is underway
- Worst year on record
  for oil drilling
- Letters to the Editor
- Bricks & Boquets
- Thunder Time

Gathering for community plant swap

Nola McGaughey hiding behind some phlox Sept. 10 at the Fall Community Plant Swap.

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Crowsnest Pass Weather

Crowsnest youths participate in second running of the Amazing Teen Race

Hormones were flying last week as dozens of Crowsnest youths took to the streets for the second running of the Amazing Teen Race.
The teens were made to [...]

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Green thumbs gather for community plant swap

On Sept. 10, green thumbs from across the Pass gathered at the Crowsnest Museum for the Fall Community Plant Swap.
Why would the museum [...]

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Pass to lose major employer when mine closes

When number thirty-seven is mined out sometime in the next two months, number six will be the last active pit at Teck’s smallest Elk Valley Mine and once that runs dry [...]

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RCMP fish unique catch out of river

This time of year anglers are known to catch cutthroat, rainbow and brown trout from the clear waters of the Crowsnest River but last week an RCMP officer landed a truly unique [...]

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Ground turning for APP Barracks

The first big step has been taken in the project to restore an old police barracks and turn it into a living prohibition interpretive centre.
For the past few years, The Crowsnest Pass Historical Society has been working hard to restore [...]

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Previous Issues

FEATURE WRITER

British Columbia Economy Leads the Nation

British Columbia leads the nation in economic growth this year, and for this reason, the Crowsnest Pass is a good place to be.
BC is doing well because [...]

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Dr. Johannes Maritz cleared of charges

A Crowsnest doctor whose legal troubles got him barred from practising medicine signed a peace bond last week in exchange for having a list of criminal charges withdrawn.
A court document says [...]

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Things are getting international at CCHS

With Germans, Finns, Chileans and Columbians flocking to its classrooms, things will be getting very international at Crowsnest Consolidated High School this year.
The local high school has [...]

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HAS adopts frog-based conflict management program

Frogs know a thing or two about conflict resolution.
Why take the red-eyed tree frog of Panama. When establishing dominance to [...]

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New ideas at ISS

In the olden days school kids were limited to learning the three Rs: Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic.
But for the second year [...]

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Goodbye Grandpa

Three years ago I had the privileged of meeting Ken, better known to me as grandpa.
Though not my blood relation, over the years he became my friend.
On Monday [...]

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Every Brick Has a Story

A wide variety of colorful brick types have presented themselves to me in my wanderings around the Pass in the last few years. It is pretty hard not to come across them as they are usually stacked in neat little piles in back yards and alleyways, propping open a door or [...]

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Calgary man recovering after dramatic backcountry rescue

Having a heart attack is scary. Having it deep in the backcountry is downright frightening.
On a July weekend, Steve Hyde, 53, came down to the Pass with his daughters Brooke, 11, and Kelsey, 10. The Calgary family was planning a dirt biking trip to see a large aircraft that [...]

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Olsen's Martial Arts closes after 13 years

As a very young man, Junior Olsen learned that he could take a punch.
He was also pretty good at giving them. So at the age of 12 he started training under his first coach Blair Orr, a man who taught him the art of fighting and its associated philosophy of [...]

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Vandals strike main street Blairmore

On Thursday night a sign in Blairmore’s Lion’s Park was vandalized says Don Harvey, president of the Blairmore Lions Club.
Harvey says [...]

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Municipality looks to crack down on illegal RV usage in Pass

There’s a fine line between keeping an RV on lawfully purchased land and using it as a primary residence.
That line gets crossed surprisingly often in Crowsnest Pass, says council.
On Aug. 23 a delegation of concerned landowners made [...]

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Man riding the Rockies for Epilepsy gets helping hand

Imagine, you’re a 60-year old man and your physician tells you that you have epilepsy.
All of a sudden you’re stripped of a driver’s licence, you’re more-or-less [...]

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Pushups for PTSD

Lately all over Facebook I see the 22 Push Up Challenge where people commit to do 22 pushups for 22 days to raise awareness of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
I am thrilled that [...]

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