THURSDAY APRIL 10, 2014
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Latest snow pack report released East Kootenay snow packs 118 per cent of normal C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
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The staff at RBC Kimberley celebrated the Day of Pink on April 9 with decorations and pink treats for customers. Day of Pink is an international International Day against Bullying, Discrimination, Homophobia and Transphobia in schools and communities.
Pitching in for Earth Day/Week Wildsight to present film, students plan clean ups
C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
Earth Day is April 22 this year and schools and other organizations are planning events, in Kimberley, across Canada and around the world. In addition to Earth Day on April 22, the week of April 20 to 26 is Pitch In week, when you can get involved in cleaning up the winter mess on
Kimberley’s streets. Schools in Kimberley always get involved and a huge amount of litter is picked up every year. Most Kimberley schools are planning Pitch-In events. If you have a group that would like to be involved, you can call the City Operations department at 250-427-9660 and let them know what area of town you’d like to clean up. The City will provide you with garbage bags and access to PitchIn materials. Wildsight will be hosting an event during the week as well. Join
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Wildsight on April 25 at Centre 64 for a special film presentation. The presentation will also be offered in Cranbrook the day before at Key City Theatre. Wildsight will celebrate Earth Day Week with the film Watermark and a Ktunaxa speaker on water. Get a glimpse of Ktunaxa history and culture through a water lens including the Columbia River salmon run, the Ktunaxa sturgeon-nosed canoe, and Ktunaxa paths along our waterways. See EARTH, page 3
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The students at both Lindsay Park and Marysville Elementary are preparing for an Earth Day walk by sanding hawthorne walking sticks. The children will be doing a Pitch-In clean up along with their walk in the coming weeks. Above, Hay Tha Htoo and Hae Tha Sher from Lindsay Park.
Mid-April is the transition point from snow accumulation to the beginning of melting at high elevations. That’s not to say we can’t get accumulation of snow into June in the high alpine, but for the most part, the major accumulation is over. This makes the April Snow Survey and Water Supply Bulletin from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources’ River Forecast Centre a fairly good guide to how much snow there will be to melt in B.C.’s watersheds this coming freshet. The report, issued on April 8, indicates that there are areas of concern in the province such as Vancouver Island where the snow pack is only 60 per cent of normal, which could lead to water supply concerns this coming summer, to the Upper Fraser where the snow pack is 136 per cent of normal. The River Forecast Centre considers anything above 120 per cent to be above normal and the East Kootenays is just skirting that with snowpacks at 118 percent of normal. Last year, at the time of the April report, East Kootenay snowpacks were at 91 per cent of normal. But weather plays a huge part as well and last year, heavy rains in late June led to severe flooding as the high elevation snow pack came down very quickly. See SNOW, page 4