TUESDAY
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
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Integra leaves Cranbrook
Airline taking time off to draft new schedule, buy larger planes SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff
Integra Air is pulling out of Cranbrook airport for 18 months so it can restructure its service to better suit demand. “The occupancy level has actually been quite low, which is the concern right now,” Brent Gateman, the airline’s CEO, told The Townsman. The Lethbridge-
based airline began a Cranbrook to Edmonton route last summer, and has scheduled flights three or five times a week for the past 14 months. But the last scheduled flight will take off on September 7. Integra will then invest in larger aircraft that will allow it offer more frequent flights at lower prices.
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Land Conservancy faces crisis Elizabeth Lake, Wycliffe land preserves could change hands SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff
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Jackie Spain, President of the East Kootenay District Labour Council, takes a volunteer shift at the lunch counter at the Labour Council’s 11th annual Labour Day Picnic, held Monday, Sept. 3, at Rotary Park in Cranbrook. Canada has celebrated Labour Day as a national holiday for 118 years, but the picnic is one of few such events that recognize the contribution made by organized labour to Canada’s national fabric. Proceeds raised from the event went to support the Cranbrook Food Bank and the Cranbrook Women’s Resource Centre.
A group that owns part of Elizabeth Lake Bird Sanctuary is in financial crisis and talking to other conservation groups to take over the property. Last week, the Canada Revenue Agency froze the bank accounts of The Land Conservancy of B.C. (TLC) after it failed to pay taxes on several of its properties for more than three years.
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