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Vol. 63, Issue 82
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Cranbrook and Kimberley parents got together on Saturday, April 26 to take part in the Great Cloth Diaper Change, a global attempt to break the Guinness World Record for most diapers changed at one time. Twenty-seven parents and tots gathered at the Cranbrook Family Connections building to take part in the challenge. The results are still being tabulated, but the event is on track to beat the previous record of 8,301 diapers changed in 2013.
Stop the invaders
Cranbrook council gets behind call to stop the influx of zebra and quagga mussels
ELECTRONIC EXORCISM
Problem traffic light gets technological makeover ‘Demons will be banished’ from light at Victoria Avenue and 2nd Street South with new cameras
ARNE PETRYSHEN Townsman Staff
SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff
A board that includes municipalities from the Okanagan is hoping that Cranbrook council will get behind their push to prevent invasive mussels from entering B.C. At Monday’s meeting, council authorized Mayor Wayne Stetski to send a letter reaffirming Cranbrook council’s support for the 2013 Union of B.C. Municipalities resolution on invasive mussels. “It’s just reaffirming that we take those little creatures seriously,” Stetski said. The Okanagan Basin Water Board is concerned about invasive zebra and quagga mussels entering B.C. waters by way of uninspected boats coming from
Cameras have been installed on what the city calls a “possessed” traffic light on Victoria Avenue and 2nd Street South. Joe McGowan, director of public works, said the traffic light will be exorcised of its demons when the cameras begin to control the intersection on Friday, May 16. “We don’t know what’s going on. What we suspect has happened is the loops – the sensors underneath the asphalt – we believe that some of them have problems,” said McGowan. Rather than ripping up the pavement in the intersection to replace the sensors, the City of Cranbrook has chosen to install new technology that will cost about 25 per cent what
Zebra mussels: They’re just not good eating. the U.S. Currently there is no legislative requirement for Canada Border Services Agency to inspect boats for the invasive mussels. Coun. Denise Pallesen worried that municipalities were getting behind too many resolutions sep-
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arately, and wouldn’t be taken seriously by the federal government. “I would suggest that we maybe just leave it with UBCM,” Pallesen said.
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it would cost to repave. “It appears that this new camera recognition system is superior in reliability to what we have now. So rather than replace what we have now with the same thing, we are going to the next level of technology,” said McGowan. Observant residents will have already noticed the cameras that have been installed about the traffic lights at that intersection. However, the wiring to connect the cameras to the computer that will control them has yet to be installed. That work is expected to be complete by May 16. There needs to be a physical connection between the cameras and the computer, which will be located in a cabinet near the intersection.
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