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Tinsel – an orphaned bear cub estimated to be 11 months old – has put the Boundary on the map. Since Christmas, the story of her rescue has gone around the world. Tinsel was found taking shelter in Dale Tiffenbach’s chicken coop beside Boundary Creek halfway between Midway and Greenwood the week before Christmas. During church on Dec. 22 Tiffenbach told others about the starving cub. He’d contacted both the Conservation Service and the RCMP but what to do about the bear cub was up in the air. One option being considered was putting the bear down. But Midway resident Miranda Charles, who attends the same church, didn’t like that idea so, with Tiffenbach’s permission, she, her husband James and her father Daryll Davies (conveniently visiting from Cape Breton) went to see the cub. Both her husband and
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The dream of establishing a national park in the South OkanaganSimilkameen is still very much alive. Over the past ten years there has been considerable talk about establishing the park, but many of us living in the Boundary know little more about the proposal beyond being aware of the several large, homemade roadside signs that declare, “NO NATIONAL PARK!” that can be seen along the highway. On the evening of November 26, representatives of the South Okana-
gan Similkameen National Park Network (SOSNPN) came to Greenwood city hall to gather support for a push to ask that the provincial government to enter negotiations with the federal government on establishment of the park. Doreen Wilson is a coordinator for the grassroots group that stretches from Penticton to Keremeos. She’s been working on this issue since 2003. Joining her was Chloe O’Loughlin, past executive director of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
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father are RCMP officers, which came in handy. After the visit Miranda told James, “You have to do something. This poor little bear cub is just sitting in the chicken coop with the chickens running around it - not hurting them, not killing them or anything.” When her husband called the Conservation Service he was told their options were limited that day. “The officer that he spoke to just said destroying it was most likely the best,” Miranda told the Times in an interview a week later. But she wouldn’t take that as the answer without looking for other options. She told her husband to give her a day to make some phone calls and see what she could do. She found the Northern Lights Wildlife Society in Smithers that had room for the cub. Unfortunately Northern Lights doesn’t accept cubs without a conservation officer’s approval. Continued on page 8
Bruins host Posse in Midway Friday The Grand Forks Border Bruins of the KIJHL will be hosting the Princeton Posse on Friday at the Boundary Expo Arena. The Bruins are coming off back to back wins against North Okanagan and Kelowna last weekend led by forward Connor Gross’ six points. Captain Jackson Purvis, who was playing his first games after missing six weeks with a concussion, added four points. Game time is at 7 p.m.