lucky guy
best job in the world
COTR Tourism grad nabs top job. See LOCAL NEWS page 7
grad 2013
ride for life
Selkirk grads can get a safe ride home this weekend thanks to volunteers.
thursDAY June 27, 2013
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The Bulletin
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Search and rescue
Man missing in Bull River
Search and Rescue, RCMP working hard to find a 20-yearold man assumed to have driven into the Bull River on Tuesday, June 25 Barry Coulter Townsman Staff
A desperate search was underway of the Bull River Tuesday above the Aberfeldie Dam for a missing vehicle and driver. Cpl Pat Prefontaine of the Cranbrook RCMP told Global’s Mike Turner Wednesday morning that a call came in at 10 p.m. Tuesday night about an accident on the Bull River Forest Service Road. “Members attended the scene and determined that a vehicle had gone off a sharp curve and down a steep embankment,” Prefontaine said. “We couldn’t find the vehicle but we did find some debris.
Cranbrook Search and Rescue scan the Bull River Tuesday for a missing man
Mike Turner photo
See SEARCH , Page 5
Town rabbits and chickens City Council meets with Rob Palermo who is advocating for backyard livestock By Kait y Brown
How would you feel about having rabbits and chickens in your backyard? What about your neighbours backyard? Now is the time to speak
See LIVESTOCK , Page 3
downtown business
Late hours just one strategy C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
Kimberley City Councillor Don McCormick has been very busy the past few months working with the Chamber of Commerce and local businesses to build a Downtown Business Association. McCormick says perceptions can have a lot to do with how people view a community, and that there may be some perceptions about Kimberley, the Platzl and
local business that are not entirely accurate. “Perceptions can be created by a few visible things,” McCormick said. “I’ve spoke to a number of businesses downtown who say that the past year was their best year. A lot of others were up. That’s not to say that everyone is doing well, or couldn’t do better, but it’s not a state of depression.” Part of it is empty storefronts, he says. But he also says if you take out the empty
space where the Fields store was —which was closed as part of a national shut down of the chain — and the empty building gutted by fire earlier this year, the vacancy rate in the Platzl is bout 20 to 25 per cent. “That’s pretty normal for downtown areas,” he said. “Cranbrook and Nelson have about the same vacancy rate, but our Platzl is so concentrated a few empty spots are noticed.”
See DBA, Page 4