Kimberley Daily Bulletin, April 17, 2013

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MEETING OF MINDS

ready, set, learn

600 TEACHERS

PRE-SCHOOL

Ready, Set, Learn event for all Kimberley three and four year olds happening Thursday, April 18.

Teachers from SD 5 and 6 meet for professional development in Kimberley.

WednesDAY April 17, 2013

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See LOCAL NEWS page 3

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Wildsight Earth Day

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Activities in Kimberley and Cranbrook this weekend CAROLYN GRANT editor@dailybulletin.ca

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 shown Friday, April 19, 7:30 p.m., at McKim Theatre in Kimberley and 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Key City 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.

See EARTH DAY , Page 3

Provincial election

Political forum CAROLYN GRANT editor@dailybulletin.ca

If you haven’t yet made a choice in the provincial election, or want to learn more about a candidate you might be leaning toward, the Kimberley Chamber of Commerce will be hosting an all candidates forum on April 30 at McKim Theatre from 6:30 to 8 p.m. So far there are three declared candidates in Columbia River Revelstoke; incumbent Norm Macdonald (NDP), Doug Clovechok (BC Liberal) and Earnie Olsen (BC Conservative). Chamber members can send questions in advance to manager@kimberleychamber.com

Photo contributed

Local community members and elected officials gathered at Cherry Creek Falls earlier this month to celebrate a step in making the falls a regional park. Pictured, from left: Kimberley Mayor Ron McRae; two members of the Meadowbrook Community Association; RDEK planner Michele Bates; another member of the Meadowbrook Community Association; RDEK Area E Director Jane Walter; Area F Director Wendy Booth; Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett; Meadowbrook Community Association member; Columbia River-Revelstoke candidate for MLA Doug Clovechok; and Bob Johnstone, Meadowbrook Community Association.

Cherry Creek Falls one step closer to becoming a park Meadowbrook Community Association rejoices as provincial government agrees to return a mineral claim to the Crown

Townsman Staff

The proposal to create a new park in the Cherry Creek Falls area is one step closer to reality after Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett announced the Province’s support to have the mineral rights to the land in question returned to the Crown.

“I had to persuade the Ministry of Energy and Mines to put a staking reserve over not just the area where the RDEK park is going to go but across the whole area. The mineral tenure is quite a large piece,” Bennett told the Townsman. “Obviously the mines ministry is not really enthusiastic

FRIDAY 7:30 McKIM THEATRE Admission by donation to Wildsight

about saying to a tenure holder, ‘We don’t want you to develop anything there once you’ve claimed this tenure, we want you to go someplace else.’ They are quite reluctant to do that,” said Bennett. “It was really quite a significant accomplishment.”

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