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Go east young man if you want to get ahead
Perceptions by Gerry Warner They say numbers never lie, and if that’s the case, the numbers uncovered by research from the Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute have some surprising things to say about the future. For instance, do you realize … > Read More
Service above self – a Cranbrook Rotarian goes to Ethiopia
Perceptions by Gerry Warner So what do you do when you’ve hit that point in life where you’re retired, the kids have flown the coop, you’re staring into your corn flakes in the morning, the wife is at work and … > Read More
Let’s bring ballet to downtown Cranbrook
In her best-selling book, ‘The Death and Life of Great American Cities,’ the late Jane Jacobs said cities go through a cycle of growth and decay with some managing to reverse the cycle and grow again by taking back their … > Read More
If I’m a teacher basher, I don’t think I’m alone
Perceptions by Gerry Warner So readers are calling me a teacher basher, eh? Well once again they’ve got it wrong. I’m not a teacher basher. I’m a BCTF basher and I make no apologies for that as I believe the … > Read More
God, the ‘God Particle’ and what it all means
Perceptions by Gerry Warner And now they’ve discovered the ‘God particle,’ according to media headlines that flashed around the world earlier this week. This supposed particle is believed to have originated during the so-called ‘Big Bang’ that created the universe … > Read More
First birthday for e-KNOW
On July 6, 2011, East Kootenay News Online Weekly (e-know.ca) went live. In our first week of business we published 17 items (stories and/or photos) and began the never-ending process of gathering news and information for the purpose of publishing … > Read More
City council making 2A Street South residents happy
Get your bids on. City of Cranbrook council last night (April 2) unanimously approved its 2012 Roads Capital Program, with a $2,474,672 budget. And now – as many residents in the city feel their roads need the most work done … > Read More
Only poetry can do justice to B.C. politics
Perceptions by Gerry Warner “There are strange things done in the midnight sun . . .” wrote Canada’s greatest poet more than 100 years ago and if Robert Service was alive today I’m sure he’d start his great epic a … > Read More
Militant union; incompetent government – students lose both ways
Perceptions by Gerry Warner A plague on both of their houses. But a bigger plague on the house of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation (BCTF), which has to bear the brunt of the blame for the dysfunctional education system we have … > Read More
