Cranbrook Daily Townsman, September 24, 2012

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Bev Campbell, chair of the board for the United Way of Cranbrook and Kimberley, welcomed the arrival of the Kimberley contingent who had relayed the United Way flag down the North Star Rails to Trails to Cranbrook to kick off the United Way’s first annual Friendship Festival, a celebration of the relationship between the two communities on Saturday, Sept. 22. From the Clock Tower Square, the group carried the flag to Rotary Park, where they were met by Cranbrook Mayor Wayne Stetski, and where a ceremony was held to start the festival. Next year is Kimberley’s turn to host the festival, and Cranbrook’s turn to relay the flag to Kimberley (uphill this time!). Pictured above: Members of the roller derby squad the Kimberley Bavarian Barbarians — Ruby Kaboom, Raven Rage, Stroker and Adoll Hitter; members of the Freewheelers Cycle Club — Colin Squirrell, Gregg Campbell, Nigel Kitto and Christopher Kitto; Kimberley Acting Mayor Bev Middlebrook, Kimberley Councillor Darryl Oakley and Kris Bellanger, City of Kimberley Planner. Bev Campbell is pictured shaking hands with Bev Middlebrook.

Four bears put down in last month C AROLYN G RA N T Daily Bulletin

Conservation Officers are asking East Kootenay residents to step up and take extra care with attractants as an unusual amount of bear activity continues.

“We have been very busy,” said Conservation Officer Joe Carravetta. “Hunting season has started but it’s mostly bears consuming a large portion of our time. They are an issue in Kimberley, Fer-

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nie and Elkford especially.” Carravetta says the issue is a very poor supply of the natural food source ­— berries — in the high alpine and bears are coming down into towns to feed be-

fore hibernating. “We have put down four bears in Kimberley since August,” he said. “These were bears that were breaking into garages and residences, which is a sign of aggression. We had no

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choice but to put them down. “We really need the public to step up and keep attractants controlled and hopefully the bears will not become habituared and move on.”

The local NDP have chosen their candidate to carry the party flag into the May, 2013, provincial election. The Kootenay East Constituency Association held its nomination convention on Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Manual Training School hall in Cranbrook. Norma Blissett of Cranbrook and Randall Macnair of Fernie were the two candidates seeking the nomination. And after the votes were tallied, Blissett came out on top — 94 votes to 13 (one spoiled ballot). Blissett will now contest the British Columbia general election — the province’s 40th — on May 14th, 2013, with Bill Bennett. Bennett is the threeterm MLA representing the B.C. Liberals. Blissett said the focus of the upcoming NDP campaign is the NDP message to voters. “What we’re going to be doing is reaching out to the constituents who live here — we’re going to be spreading our message of positive change on the doorsteps, at public events and in the media,” she said.

Norma Blissett

Blissett is a forester and a teacher and has lived in Cranbrook for the past 17 years. She is currently teaching science and math at Mt. Baker Secondary School. She faced off for the nomination against Randal Macnair, a former mayor of Fernie and current Fernie City Councillor. “We’d done a lot of work as far as reaching out to members,” Blissett said of the nomination campaign. “I phoned everyone, sent out brochures, I met with a number of people I didn’t know before, so I was fairly confident coming in. But you never known, right?”

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