Kimberley Daily Bulletin, July 15, 2013

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Marijuana

MonDAY July 15, 2013

Boun tiful

Pot activists visit area

In the news again

A new independent special prosecutor will take another look at the polygamous community near Creston. See LOCAL NEWS page 3

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Backcountry

The future of forest service roads Washouts, landslides on many EK forest service roads C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca

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The community joined the celebration at Mark Creek Market last Friday to say Happy Birthday and congratulations to Dan Jarrett on the occasion of his 70th birthday and 50th year in business in Kimberley. Deputy Mayor Jack Ratcliffe offered best wishes from the City of Kimberley and enjoyed a piece of birthday cake.

After the torrential rains at the end of June, many backcountry forest service roads are in very poor condition, with bridge washouts, landslides and erosion. The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations put out a warning on July 11 — Backcountry travel limited at this time due to extensive road damages. Many locations have not been inspected for damage and may be unsafe. Take extreme caution when using damaged areas. Don’t expect much of the damage to be repaired any time soon says Columbia River Revelstoke MLA Norm Macdonald. He says that the rains in June have simply exacerbated an ongoing problem of lack of maintenance on the province’s forest service roads.

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The East Kootenay Energy Diet

Incentives and rebates available for home updates C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca

Last fall Kimberley City Council made the decision to opt out of purchasing energy offsets to reach carbon neutrality, as most communities agreed to when they signed

the Climate Action Charter. The nearest available offset purchase was the Darkwoods conservation project in the West Kootenay. Council decided to bank the offset money until a project closer to home could be found. Last week Council heard about an energy conservation project that could potentially be a good recipient of those banked funds. That project is the East Kootenay Energy Diet.

Meghan Lohmann visited Council to talk about the project, funded through BC Hydro, the Regional District of East Kootenay and the Columbia Basin Trust. The EKED will facilitate region-wide home energy assessments and provide information and support regarding available incentives for home retrofits in the East Kootenay. The program will kick off this summer and homeowners can sign up online to par-

ticipate. Local governments can support the program in a variety of ways — from subsidizing the initial energy assessment, subsidizing a specific action such as the purchase of a new hot water tanks, or subsidize the follow-up audit, which is mandatory for homeowners to access LiveSmart rebates. Kimberley Councillor Jack Ratcliffe said that this may be a good use of the money set back for carbon offsets.

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