FRIDAY APRIL 4, 2014
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CLUB CHAMPS
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Kimberley Curling Club champs declared.
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It’s time to launch ticket sales for the annual Food Bank Duck Race, always held July 1. Watch for Food Bank directors and sponsors at various locations around town in the coming months and make sure you get your $5 ticket for the exciting event. Celebrating the launch are Stan Salikin from the Food Bank. Tom Vold, Kimberley Golf Course, Peter Munro, property management, Tara Sykes realtor, Anna Maria Rathpoller, Gasthaus, Shane Murray, realtor, Marilyn Jolie, realtor, Ruth Kaufman, Kimberley Sausage and Meats, Audrey Welk, realtor, Kerry Penny, administration, Darren Close, realtor, Wayne Sills, property management. Missing are Mark Poirer, Meadowbrook Greenhouses, Doug Cunnington, EK Realty and Vaughn Jarrett, Mark Creek Market.
B.C. man accused of arson arrested near Fernie FERNIE, B.C. — A 44-year-old man accused of attacking his estranged wife and setting her Langley, B.C., house on fire has been arrested. RCMP say Andre Richard was apprehended 900 kilometres away near Fernie, B.C., on Thursday, more than 24 hours after he also allegedly struck the woman’s daughter with an unknown weapon as she tried to help her mother. Cpl. Holly Marks says Richard was taken into custody after police
received a report about an erratic and possibly impaired driver. Charges of attempted murder are expected to be laid by Friday against Richard, who is also accused of breaching a condition that prohibited contact with his estranged wife. She, along with her daughter and eight-year-old son, managed to escape from their burning house. The woman is in hospital in stable condition.
Cautionary tax tales for seniors Local tax expert concerned about seniors being targeted at tax time C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
The end of April is the deadline for filing personal income taxes in Canada; a busy time for tax prepar-
ers. Pat Thorrougood from Kimberley’s Exact Tax says she has a lot of senior clients and she is worried that some seniors are being taken advantage of as the deadline looms. Her first concern is the frequency with which her clients are seeing emails purporting to be from Canada Revenue Agency and requesting personal information in order for a person to claim their refund. See TAXES, Page 3
Grade 9’s encouraged to Go Wild Go Wild trains students for fiveday backcountry hike in June BULLE TIN STAFF
The Wildsight-Selkirk Grade 9 – Go Wild 5 Day Hike program will be offered again this spring, says Selkirk teacher Jenn Meens, and all interested grade nines are encouraged to apply after the program presentation taking place on April 9. Successful applicants will be taking part in several after school sessions and a one night simulation trip before the fiveday backcountry hike in late June. Last year, students hiked in Yoho National Park, and Meens says it was a great success. “Picture perfect blue sky’s, breathtaking vistas, and glaciers filled our visual cup over the three days the Selkirk Outdoor
The Go Wild program culminates in a five-day hike.
Careers students spent in the Lake O’Hara area of Yoho National Park,” Meens said. “The amazingly beautiful place was enhanced by the hard work it took to get in there – a 12km ski in, seemingly all up hill.” “It was a tough day to get into the Elizabeth
Parker Hut, but once I go there it was so amazing that I felt like I could do the 12 km all over again” said Veronika (student). “The students had to work hard to get ready for this trip. We skied as much as we could beforehand, and appreciated the assistance of
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Keith King in preparing us for the long journey in. Students made amazing food for the whole group, with lots of preparation making sure we had good healthy and tasty meals which included some meals dehydrated ahead of time.” See WILD, page 3