FRIDAY
JUNE 14, 2013
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A LITTLE FORTIFICATION FOR THE WEEKEND AHEAD: The Sam Steele Days festival weekend has arrived. Pancake breakfasts are the order of the day, and Rylan Gibson, 3, took advantage of the offerings at the Tamarack Centre Thursday morning. Visit www.samsteeledays.org for a full list of events over this jam-packed weekend.
Three deer attacks on dogs confirmed in Kimberley K A IT Y B ROWN Townsman Staff
Marilyn Wheeler, a resident of the Blackbear Crescent area in Kimberley, had only let the dog out for a brief moment but that’s all it took. A deer with fawn was in the area and trampled on Dolly, a terrier who belonged to Wheeler’s son and who she was watching for a few days. The attack happened on Wednesday, June 12 at around 9 a.m. “We let it out and unbeknownst there was a deer there. I guess the dog must have seen the deer and so the deer got up and stomped on one of the dogs.” This particular deer was with
a fawn, a common sight this time of year. “People across the way told us. They came out to help to get the deer away from the little dog. They told us that it had fawns.” Wheeler said that she is worried about the community’s mentality of, “Oh, it’s just a deer,” and wants to remind pet owners and citizens alike that the deer and fawn are a danger to everyone – not just pets. Wheeler lives with her 82-year-old mother and said she was concerned not only for the dog, but for herself and her mother. “It’s a danger and that’s all there is to it.
“I just want it to be known because it is a pretty dangerous thing. We have kids and people and everything around and it’s pretty bad.” Recently a trial deer-hazing test was conducted, involving trained dogs who herded some deer out of town. The pilot project was a success but it is still under discussion over whether this would be a good option. Mayor Ron McRae said that whether the program would continue was up to provincial government. Now that the election is over, attention will be paid to issues like these, he said.
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CMRT Executive Director Damon Colgan is pictured in the Royal Alexandra Hall.
New director takes helm of rail museum A RN E PE T RYSHEN Townsman Staff
The Canadian Museum of Rail Travel will be seeing a few changes in the near future. One of those changes is new executive director Damon Colgan taking the helm, replacing longtime director Garry Anderson. Colgan has been on at the museum for only a month, but already the museum board is getting behind the changes he has proposed. Colgan worked at the Chase and District Museum and Archives near Kamloops prior to taking on the role in Cranbrook and graduated with a degree in history from Thompson Rivers University, followed by a degree in museum studies through Athabasca University.
One of the changes moving ahead is making rental of the Royal Alexandra Hall easier and more streamlined. Before, you would only be able to rent if you were an annual renter. “I’m moving away from that,” Colgan said. “There will be no restriction like that if someone wants to rent the hall. If you want to do a wedding or other type of event in the hall, basically all those restrictions are down. It’s up for rental now.” Colgan said it was a staffing issue before that they have now sorted out. The other big one is that the board will be developing the location to become the official place for the Cranbrook Museum.
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