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The bidding starts at $1 million Cherry Creek Estate Ranch may sell for as much as $7.5 million C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
Kimberley kids are learning all about emoting at Kimberley Summer Theatre School this week and next.
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In what will likely be the most expensive single-family property ever sold in this area, a private equestrian estate — Cherry Creek Estate Ranch — is being offered through an exclusive online auction service with an opening bid of “only” $1 million. The property has previously listed for $7.5 million. The five bedroom, six and a half bath home on 320 acres is being auctioned through Interluxe, a company innovating the luxury real estate auction segment. “Online auction, which takes advantage of today’s extraordinary technology, is already a successful platform for rare artwork, luxury cars, and fine jewelry, and provides luxury homeowners with the unique opportunity to cost-effectively reach a global audience,” said Interluxe President Scott Kirk.
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Minister ‘open’ to hazing, Macdonald says C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
The spring session of the Legislature rolls on, and during this time, Opposition MLAs have an opportunity to speak to government Ministers about issues important to their ridings. Columbia River Revelstoke MLA Norm Macdonald had a meeting with Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations
Minister Steve Thomson. The subject was deer hazing and Kimberley’s one day trial at the end of May. “The Minister said he was open to the idea and looking into it,” Macdonald said. “He said he thought it was a good idea. He has staff working on it.” If it does involve a legislative change to the Wildlife Act to allow for dogs to chase deer, Macdonald said it would only be a small change and therefore quite easily
made. “It could be done for the next session but that’s for Legislative Management to decide. We are scheduled to sit in the fall but there’s an expectation we may not, given past history. But even if we don’t sit until next winter, there’s still time.” The Minister did not make a commitment and Macdonald says these conversations are quite casual, but he felt encouraged.
“There has been a resistance to changing the Act somewhere in the bureaucracy in the past,” he said. “But the Minister does get final say and his response indicates an openness. That’s encouraging.” In a letter to Macdonald, Minister Thomson made no commitment but did say: “The provincial government supports communities taking creative approaches to managing urban deer and other wildlife.”