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The Cranbrook Health Care Auxiliary recently announced its new executive, and funding priorities for the East Kootenay Regional Hospital amounting to $613,333. See details on Page 3. Back row; Roger Brown - director. Middle row, left to right: Linda Riffel - director, Bea Burlingham - director, Rachel Christie - President, Kate Fox - director, Sandy Zeznik - past president, Anna Sandberg- 2nd vice president, Odette Rouse - 1st vice president, Elaine Moggey - director. Front row, left to right; Karen Wreggett - director, Pat Bailey - director, Betty Wardle - secretary, Eldene Smedstad - director, Mona Ragan - treasurer.
Kimberley wants to try hazing experiment City seeks 48 hours for a professional test on urban deer C AROLYN GR ANT Daily Bulletin
Kimberley City Council voted Monday evening to apply for a 48hour experimental hazing permit. Coun. Darryl Oakley asked Council to approve the application at their regular meeting this week, calling it a baby step in a long process. “This is one piece in our management plan,” Oakley said. “We wanted to get to the place where we can do a
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short trial hazing.” Oakley says the Urban Deer Committee has been burning the midnight oil this winter and that has included a visit from a professional hazer, who has worked in Banff, Jasper and Waterton. “This is a professional person who does this, it’s very controlled,” Oakley said.
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Saturday’s Earth Hour saved 136 megawatt hours of electricity throughout the province, says BC Hydro S A LLY MAC D O N A LD Townsman Staff
Cranbrook and Kimberley joined communities all over the world to mark Earth Hour on Saturday, March 23 at 8:30 p.m. Hosted by the World Wildlife Fund, the global initiative began in 2007 and is the single, largest, symbolic mass participation event in the world. Earth Hour asks people
to switch off unnecessary lights and electronics for one hour to show concern for the environment. The initiative’s goal is to mobilize people to take action on climate change. Around the world, 7,001 cities and towns in 152 countries participate each year.
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The identity of a man who died in an avalanche near Kimberley on March 23 has been confirmed and released. The BC Coroners Service reported on Tuesday that Joel Conway, aged 38, of Kimberley, was one of a group of seven snowmobilers who had travelled to the area of Hellroaring Creek southwest of Kimberley, on a memorial run for another Kimberley resident who died in an avalanche in the same area four years earlier. While the group was in the area, a large avalanche struck, burying two of the men. One man managed to dig himself out, but Conway was buried too deeply for self-rescue, or for the other members of the party to be able to rescue him. They sought help, and a major search- and-rescue effort was launched. Conway’s body was recovered from the area on March 24. The Canadian Avalanche Centre continues to list the avalanche risk as “considerable” to “high” in many parts of the province and urges all backcountry users to take extreme care, including checking the Canadian Avalanche Centre website for current conditions in B.C.