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Flood relief
The RDEK Board thanked Attorney General Shirley Bond for her help with emergencis this past spring.
There will be no Daily Bulletin on Monday, October 8, 2012 due to the Thanksgiving Day holiday. The Bulletin returns on Tuesday, October 9, 2012.
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October 5, 2012
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End of life care
Hospice care returns to Kimberley Cranbrook Hospice Society expanding to include Kimberley C AROLYN GR ANT bulletin@cyberlink.ca
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The Kimberley Literacy Charity Golf Tournament has once again been a great success raising over $9500 for the Friends of the Kimberley Public Library and Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy Kimberley. Above, the Alice in Wonderland team of Deb, Faith, Dave and L.T. is is kept in line by the Queen of Hearts. Don ‘t forget next Thursday, October 18 is Literacy Day in Kimberley. Watch for Bulletin and CBAL representatives raising funds for literacy. See more from the golf tournament, page 3.
KIMBERLEY ALPINE RESORT
Opening day December 14 C AROLYN GR ANT bulletin@cyberlink.ca
Kimberley Alpine Resort will open for the season on Friday, December 14, 2012. This will be a full opening says Resorts of the Canadian Rockies VP Matt Mosteller, and a preview weekend prior to that date will be decided upon closer to the date. A
preview weekend would mainly depend on snow conditions, Mosteller says, given that December 14 is earlier than previous years. “We’ll announce a preview weekend if the snow is there,” Mosteller said. “Right now we are making sure that we’ve got everything ready. We’re continuing to keep undergrowth down on the
runs so we can open with as little snow as possible.” There were grooming changes last year, with some of the steeper runs being groomed. “I think people saw positive changes with grooming last year and that will continue,” he said. Mosteller also says snow making capabilities are
being continually enhanced with new technology making it possible to make snow earlier in the season. “There’s a newer nozzle technology on the snow guns which allows water to move through in a different way, that gives us an opportunity to make snow at warmer temperatures.
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Kimberley has been without hospice services for several years since the Kimberley Hospice Society, under the dedicated direction of Pat White, folded. Now the Cranbrook Hospice Society is expanding and changing their name to the Cranbrook Kimberley Hospice Society, in order to bring hospice back to Kimberley. The Society has found two Kimberley board members says Don Davidson from the Hospice Society, but would like to pick up a few more. “Having board members from Kimberley gives us more contact with the community, more ability to assess what the needs are,” he said. The Society is also looking for volunteers from Kimberley. The Hospice Society provides support to persons at the end of life, and also support to their families as they go through the dying process and bereavement. “We pair a trained volunteer with a person at the end
of life,” Davidson said. “We get to know the family, then offer bereavement support. We keep in touch with the family for a year or more after the death.” The Cranbrook Kimberley Hospice Society recognizes the importance of spirituality but have no affiliation with any specific religious organization. Services are free and strictly confidential. You can be referred to the Hospice Society by family members, care givers, physicians, friends, clergy or anyone else simply by calling the Hospice Society office at 250-417-2019 or email Hospice1@telus.net Davidson says training sessions are beginning in November and if there are enough volunteers from Kimberley, the training could take place here as well. In addition, the Society will shift board meetings back and forth between Kimberley and Cranbrook. There is a hospice room at the Kimberley Special Care Home (the Pines) which was equipped by the former Kimberley Hospice Society. “It is not used just for hospice,” Davidson said. “But we would work closely with the people at the Pines.
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