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Vol. 63, Issue 84
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BREW CREW: Members of the B.C. Wildfire Management Branch (WMB) conducted a prescribed burn on Brewery Ridge east of Cranbrook, on Wednesday, April 30. The low-intensity burn was prescribed by the Rocky Mountain Trench Ecosystem Restoration Program to maintain key grazing areas for Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, mule deer and elk, and was funded by the Fish & Wildlife Compensation Program. The 190-hectare burn went successfully with the main smoke column moving away from the Trench and up the Wildhorse Creek valley.
Council not in line with Pitt Meadows grow-op ban A R N E P E T RYS H E N Townsman Staff
Cranbrook Council seemed to give an indication that it will not be stepping in the way of potential future industrial medical marijuana grow-ops in the area. A letter from the mayor of Pitt Meadows, which has banned the grow operations, prompted the discussion at the April 28 council meeting. “They voted to prohibit any medical marijuana facilities in Pitt Meadows,” Mayor Wayne
Stetski said. On April 1, Pitt Meadows made a text amendment to its zoning bylaw that prohibits the growing, storing, processing, testing or distribution of cannabis in all zones of the city. “What’s interesting about this one is they brought forward a couple of concerns,” Stetski said. One of those concerns is that the BC Assessment Authority may decided that the medical marijuana industry can qualify to be assessed at farm rates as
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they are growing a product, whether or not they they are located in agricultural areas. That could have implications for a municipality that has higher industrial rates than farm rates. CAO Wayne Staudt confirmed that farming and industrial zoning are under similar rates in Cranbrook, after being asked by Coun. Diana J. Scott. “So we’re OK,” Scott said.
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Theatre bringing world-class chamber musicians to Cranbrook SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff
The Key City Theatre remains a busy and eventful place as summer approaches, with many bookings in May and June, a festival next month, and even events when the theatre would traditionally have been closed. Once school lets out, the theatre usually takes a two-month hiatus. However, this year there will be events at the Key in July and August. “We are not presenting anything on our own over the summer but we are providing that service,” said Ge-
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rard Gibbs, managing director. “We will be here a bit more often than what was traditional.” This week, the theatre was forced to announce the cancellation of a concert presenting Lisa Marie Presley, slated for June 27, which had sold several hundred tickets. “She is just off an Australia-Japan tour and she has just become completely exhausted, and the doctor ordered that she take a break. So at this point she has cancelled the North American leg of the tour,” said Gibbs.
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