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Man survives plunge over Marysville Falls Search and Rescue performs first ever rope rescue in Kimberley
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New role for former mayor
Scott Manjak has begun a new position as chief of staff at ?aq’am (St. Mary’s Band) SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff
Cranbrook’s former mayor Scott Manjak has taken a position on the opposite side of the gavel. Manjak started work on Tuesday, July 2 as the Chief Operating Officer at ?aq’am (St. Mary’s Band). “As the Chief Operating Officer I am responsible for the day-to-day operations of the St. Mary’s administration and government, and I also work with Chief (Jim) Whitehead and council on council initiatives, very similar to a local government role,” Manjak explained. Since leaving office as Cranbrook’s mayor in November 2011, Scott and his wife Raeleen relocated to Sparwood. Manjak set up a consult-
CAROLYN GRANT Daily Bulletin
A local man who fell into Mark Creek and went over Marysville Falls survived the event. On Monday, July 1, Kimberley Search and Rescue performed a highly technical rope rescue to retrieve the man from the river, something that they train for often, but had never before put into practice. Peter Reid from Kimberley Search and Rescue said they received a call about a missing man Monday morning. “He had failed to show up for work and we started a search,” Reid said. Crews walked along the river — which is still running quite quickly — and the man was located sitting on a rock further down the creek. “He slipped into Mark Creek just above the falls, “Reid said. “He managed to ride the falls all the way down into the bottom pool, then float down towards the canyon where he was able to get up on a rock. We had to do a rope rescue to get him out.” Reid said the fact that the man was alive was miraculous. “He shouldn’t have survived — not with the falls running as they are, the log jams and rocks. It’s incredible to survive a ride down the falls.”
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Pictured above: Peter Reid of Kimberley Search and Rescue, Nick Bedwell (Cranbrook SAR) and Jan Klassen (Cranbrook SAR) set up the first ever rope rescue performed in Kimberley Monday, July 1.
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Scott Manjak
“There were some staffing changes internally and through those changes they approached me and asked if I was interested in filling this position on a one-year basis while some of their staff were away,” said Manjak.
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Search for missing Jaffray man hampered by fast moving water TAMARA HYND Fernie Free Press
Pictured above: Scott MacLeod of Kimberley SAR, down at the scene with subject, packaging the stretcher.
ing business, and through this he began to work with the ?aq’am community.
Swiftwater teams from Fernie, Sparwood, Cranbrook and Kimberley worked throughout the day and into the night on Saturday in the Bull River, continuing the search for the missing 20-year-old man from Jaffray. An RCMP dive team joined the search, but was forced to abandon the dive due to strong currents in the river. The Swiftwater teams were able to locate the
vehicle, using metal poles and underwater cameras in fast-moving turbid waters, around 12 feet under the surface. At this stage the pictures are not clear enough to provide any evidence as to whether the man is still in the vehicle. Simon Piney from Fernie SAR explained, “The vehicle is assumed to be that of the Jaffray man as there is no local knowledge of an other vehicle in the Bull River.
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