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Vol. 61, Issue 193
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Tembec selling property Forestry company seeks to make $75 million selling EK land by Dec. 2014 SALLY MACDONALD
JAMIE LEVINE PHOTO
This 25-second exposure of the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, taken at 11 p.m. just outside of Cranbrook on Oct 1. A meteorite can be seen flashing through the centre of the frame. Dr. Jamie Levine has a hobby for astrophotograhy and he is pleased to see these Northern Lights this far south. Right now the sun is near a solar maximum, so solar high energy particles hitting the earth’s atmosphere can fluoresce, or light up, similar to what happens in a fluorescent light bulb.
The songwriter and the song Ron Sexsmith on his craft, his colleagues and his concert BARRY COULTER
He is arguably Canada’s best and most renowned songwriter, and has been feted as such for years by the likes of Elton John, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Elvis Costello, and Paul McCartney. Only recently, however, has Ron Sexsmith started to receive the acclaim anyone who has heard his music insists he deserves. Though he regularly sells out shows in the UK and US, Canadian audiences are only recently starting to understand Sexsmith’s international reputation as one of our greatest.
When disaster strikes Local volunteers are busy behind the scenes of an emergency S A L LY M AC D O N A L D Townsman Staff
When an emergency occurs in the East Kootenay, be it a house fire, a chemical spill, or a landslide, a group of volunteers springs into action. But these are not the emergency responders who lay sandbags and douse flames; these volunteers connect with people affected by disaster and find them a place to stay, bring food to sustain them, help their pets. The Emergency Social Services (ESS) program, a B.C.
initiative offered through the Regional District of East Kootenay, is a team of around 12 volunteers with one coordinator in each of the East Kootenay’s three sub-regions. “What happens is, when there is an emergency and someone has to be evacuated from their home for whatever reason, be it wildfire, house fire, floods, chemical spill, bath leak, then we are able to through the Emergency Social Services program assist them with lodging, food, clothing and incidentals if required, for
72 hours,” explained Anita Charest, the coordinator for the ESS program for the East Kootenay’s Central subregion, which includes Cranbrook and Kimberley. ESS provides primary services such as food; lodging; clothing; and family reunification. ESS may also provide specialized services such as emotional support services; first aid; child minding; pet care; and transportation services.
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Tembec is selling off some of its land in the East Kootenay. The forestry company announced on Monday, September 30 that it hopes to sell $75 million worth of land in the region by the end of 2014. The first sale is a 1,875 hectare parcel, which has been sold for $4.2 million to Nanaimo-based company Jemi Holdings Ltd. The transaction will be complete on or about November 1. Tembec’s statement does not say where in the East Kootenay the parcel is located. According to a website for Jemi Holdings, the company owns more than 10,000 hectares in B.C. It specializes in developing, subdividing and marketing real estate. Tembec has had a presence in the East Kootenay since 1999 when it purchased the Elko and Canal Flats sawmills from Crestbrook Forest Industries. In November 2011, Tembec sold those mills to Canfor. In March, Tembec sold its Skookumchuck pulp mill to Vancouver-based Paper Excellence Canada. The site of Cranbrook’s planer mill still belongs to Tembec. The mill was shut down in 2010 and destroyed in a fire last year. A sawmill on the same site closed in 1999. Tembec owns approximately 64,500 hectares of land in the East Kootenay.
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