Kimberley Daily Bulletin, January 27, 2014

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MONDAY JANUARY 27, 2014

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Anja McCloskey and Dan Whitehouse with support from Daze of Grace

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Kimberley was one of six pilot communities to receive CBT Community Directed Youth Funds. One of the ideas come up with by the Youth Steering Committee was North Star Mountain Snowshoeing and Movie Night. A number of Kimberley youth enjoyed the movie and spectacular views from the mountain. See Page 3 for more.

A jam for Jenna

A night of great music for a great cause FOR THE BULLETIN

On Saturday, February 1, an incredible pool of talent will come together for an evening of entertainment in support of Jenna Homeniuk. Jenna is a 15 year old Kimberley girl who has been fighting leukaemia for the past 18 months. Although there have been numerous fund raising

Friends of Lois Creek plan for coming year

campaigns and events for which the family is deeply appreciative and Logging postgrateful, the challenges are ongoing with Jenna facing another round of chemo, and then a second bone mar- poned indefinitely row transplant. The financial pressure C AROLYN GR ANT continues and our community is once editor@dailybulletin.ca again reaching out to help them. The Good Ol’ Goats will headline the evening with additional perforThe Friends of Lois mances by 60 Hertz, Sheva and The Creek held a public meetRosie Brown Band. ing a week and a half ago to inform trail users on See JENNA, page 4 what might be happening

in 2014 on the trail system in Townsite. One thing that won’t be happening is logging. And that is both positive and negative, says Nigel Kitto of the FOLC. It is good news that mechanized logging will not occur, as many were quite concerned about the effects of that. But,

there is a lot of beetle kill in the trails area that presents a fire hazard that will have to be dealt with at some point. “Canfor holds the logging options over the Crown Land sections of the Lois Creek trails area, but has chosen not to proceed,” Kitto said. “Although concerns remain

of the effect of the beetle infestation, FOLC are very happy that mechanical logging will not occur. Options to manage the risks of wildfire in this area were discussed at the meeting including accessing city and provincial grants.”

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