Fall colours
ThursDAY
victory
western larch hike
McKim runs to a win
Join the Nature Park Society for the last hike of the season.
McKim’s running teams takes cross country victory.
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October 18, 2012
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Kimberley history
The clock is ticking; and yodelling Happy Hans will be happy to yodel for you CAROLYN GRANT bulletin@cyberlink.ca
A little piece of Kimberley history, the Platzl cuckoo clock, has received a buff and polish in a real community effort. Mayor Ron McRae was in the Platzl Wednesday to congratulate Adi Unterberger and Ossi Piechatzek on their efforts in pulling it all together. Also there to take a look at the work was Bill Spence, who in 1972 built the original clockworks for the Kimberley Bavarian Society. Unterberger explained that in recent years the clock has not been working — Happy Hans has not emerged to yodel on demand.
“A woman from Manitoba came to me last summer,” Unterberger, who owns a shop in the Platzl, said. “She said she used to come here with her family and they always put money in the clock to see Happy Hans. Now she’s here with her grandchildren and it doesn’t work.” After a visit to City Council for permission, Unterberger enlisted Piechatzek’s help and they began the work to refurbish the clock. It has been repainted, a new lens for the clock was put in, a new bench out front and the doors repainted. Inside it was re-insulated and the clockworks repaired. Spence recalls the efforts to build the clock in 1972, just as Kimberley was adopting the Bavarian theme.
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Flume project on pace CAROLYN GRANT bulletin@cyberlink.ca
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Mayor Ron McRae congratulates the community effort put forth to refurbish the Platzl cuckoo clock. With McRae are Adi Unterberger, Bill Spence ( who built the interior of the clock in 1972) and Ossi Piechatzek.
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The Mark Creek flume project is proceeding well, says Mayor Ron McRae and on target for first phase completion before the end of the year. McRae says the contract with Copcan spells out that the first phase must be completed this year no matter what. The first phase will take the wider, deeper creek channel up to the area by BJ’s Restaurant at Highway 95A this year. As for funding for the $4 million plus project, a referendum approved
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the City borrowing the entire amount if necessary but it is still hoped that an application under the gas tax funding may provide federal and provincial dollars. At the UBCM last month, McRae said he met with the newly appointed Minister of Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development Bill Bennett, who was helpful though non-committal. “He had some good ideas around the progress of the gas tax application. He said the application was sound and we did what we were supposed to do. We would expect a decision sometime in November.”
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