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Favorit Cycles resumes its Boys & Girls Club bike donation program
Wildsight marks Earth Day with weekend of events C AROLYN GR ANT Kimberley Daily Bulletin
Earth Day 2013 will be celebrated on Monday, April 22, but Wildsight Kimberley/Cranbrook will be spending the entire weekend on Earth Day activities, all intended to provoke thought on climate change. The idea, says Wildsight’s Lars Sander-Green, is to get people thinking about climate change, and how small changes can lead to big things in terms of carbon footprint. It begins with the film Chasing Ice, to be
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A local bicycle shop is putting on a program that takes in broken bikes, fixes them up and donates them to the local Boys and Girls Club. For the second year in a row, Favorit Cycles is taking in the old bikes and putting them to good use. James McKee, manager of Favorit Cycles, said the program was a chance to give back to the community. The shop buys used or broken bikes at $3 per pound for a trade. So if you’re buying a new bike, you can bring in your old bike and trade it towards a new one. “We’ve had people hear about it and call us up and say, ‘Wow, there’s some where I can deal with my old bikes,’” he said. “Instead of just throwing them away, it does something good for the community.” The shop has put together some conditions that bikes need to meet before they can be brought in. “You can’t just bring a pile of slag in and assume you can get a bike for free,” he said, but added that they will deal with the cases as they come in. “The point is to give some bikes to the Boys and Girls Club,” McKee said. “I think last year we gave them eight or 10 of them.” McKee said the shop takes bikes as long as they’re worthy of being fixed up. Last year, it took bits and pieces of 40 or so bikes to get those bikes that
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shown Friday, April 19, 7:30 p.m., at McKim Theatre in Kimberley and 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Key City Theatre in Cranbrook. Admission to both is by donation. The film, Sander-Green says, is a thought provoking look at decreasing ice around the world. “A National Geographic photographer did an extreme ice survey. He has time lapse videos of decreasing ice. The film makes it real, you can really see the ice melting,” Sander-Green said.
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Teck gets go-ahead from government Teck receives direction to move forward with Elk Valley mining activities, watershed protection
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James McKee from Favorit Cycles is hoping that people are keen to bring down their old bikes, so the shop can fix them up and donate them to the local Boys and Girls Club. they then donated. He also said the majority of people come in and donate their bikes. McKee admitted that the program helps with marketing, but has that added twist of helping members of the community.
Favorit has set the parameters to higher quality bikes for the trade in, saying you have to be buying bikes worth upwards of $600 in the first place. They are also avoiding kids bikes. They have to deem the bike fixable, if it’s not then they will
most likely refuse it. “It’s the fine print, but it’s pretty fair,” he said. The program goes for at least the next four weeks at Favorit Cycles, located at 12 – 9th Avenue in Cranbrook. Call them at 250-489-3532 for more information.
Teck Resources Limited has received an Area Based Management Plan Order from the B.C. Ministry of Environment, providing clarity around watershed protection and allowing the company to move forward with mining activities in the Elk Valley. “This order we received from the B.C. government is a posi-
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tive step towards really finalizing a regulatory basis to dealing with this issue,” said Marcia Smith, Senior Vice President, Sustainability and External Affairs. “We are very committed to maintaining the health of the Elk River and this really provides us with a path forward so we finalize a water quality plan for the Elk Valley.”
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