Kimberley Daily Bulletin, November 23, 2012

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independent school

season of giving

Life on the farm

Book drive

Used children’s books required for Christmas hampers.

Students spent some time on the fall harvest.

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November 23, 2012

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The long road to Jumbo A lot of work to do before first Council meeting for new resort municipality Annalee Gr ant Townsman Staff

Carolyn Grant photo

It’s not just Kimberley that supports the Helping Hands Food Bank, but Wasa too. Above, Charlie Harding and Jack Davis from the Wasa Lions present a $1000 donation to Heather Smith of the Kimberley Helping Hands Food Bank. The money was raised through pancake breakfasts in Wasa and topped up to an even thousand by the Lions. Don’t forget it’s Food Bank Night at the Dynamiters game on Saturday night.

Jumbo Glacier Resort may have been named a municipality on Tuesday, November 20, but don’t expect hospitals, roads and homes to spring up over night. There’s a long road ahead into Jumbo, literally and figuratively, and a copy of the Letters Patent signed by Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development Bill Bennett obtained by the Townsman/Bulletin speaks to the work ahead for the new three-member appointed council. First off, the Jumbo Glacier Mountain Resort Municipality will include 6,131 hectares within the municipality boundaries and will

be classified as a village when it is incorporated. The appointed council of Greg Deck as mayor, and Nancy Hugunin and Steve Ostrander as councillors will be just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the governance of Jumbo. A number of advisory bodies will be set up by the council in the coming months and must be in place before June 18, 2013. None of the three panels can be dissolved until the first election or until 15 years after the incorporation of the municipality. The first is a resort advisory body that the threemember council will consult with on issues related to the proposed financial plan bylaws, however the panel will not be consulted on issues related to the first financial plan to be prepared by the municipality by December 31, 2013.

See JUMBO , Page 5

backcountry recreation

Start thinking about avalanche safety C AROLYN GR ANT bulletin@cyberlink.ca

There’s snow in the hills already, and though it’s early in the season, people are already heading into the backcountry for skiing and snowmobiling. Avalanche deaths occur every year in British Columbia, and it is never too early to begin thinking about backcountry safety. As we move into the winter season, the RCMP are asking skiers, snowboarders,

snowmobilers and anyone else enjoying the outdoors to exercise caution when leaving groomed and managed trails. The Canadian Avalanche Centre, www. avalanche.ca, provides bulletins on conditions around the province, but this early in the year, information is a little hard to come by. “Producing avalanche forecasts and issuing danger ratings requires information,” said T. Riley from the Canadian Avalanche

Centre. “We rely largely on data from professionals and at this time of year, a lot of them have not yet started their winter operations. As a result, in the early season, we often do not have enough information to issue a full slate of danger ratings and other parts of the forecasts may be more a general overview than a specific description of the conditions. “One thing we notice about the early winter is people tend to go high. This makes sense — the snow falls first in the alpine and

there may even be left over patches of snow or glaciers to help cover the ground. The problem is these are also the spots where you’re most likely to encounter avalanche hazard. “Wind and storm slabs will form readily in alpine bowls and around ridgelines. They will be poorly bonded to the layers below, during and immediately following a storm.

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