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Poaching incident remains unsolved BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff
Brian Lawrence
ON TRACK — Seven teams took part in Creston’s 13th annual Relay for Life, hosted by the Canadian Cancer Society at the Creston and
District Community Complex on June 21. Fundraising by the teams prior to the event and funds raised during the relay day brought the community’s total to more than $15,000.
Herb conference running next week BY BRIAN LAWRENCE Advance Editor
With workshops, hands-on learning and more, the first Kootenay Herb Conference is set for July 11-14. Over a dozen presenters
will educate delegates to the conference, which has the theme “Herbs: The Medicine of the People”, focusing on the centuries-old tradition of herbs in food and medicine. The conference is the first of its kind in the Kootenays, and falls between similar
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conferences held in northern Alberta and Vancouver Island in odd-numbered years. And coincidentally, an annual conference was just cancelled in Montana, sending delegates north to Creston. See CONFERENCE, page 3
More than nine months after four mule deer were illegally shot on a Lister farmer’s field, conservation officer James Barber says the search for the culprit continues. “Fortunately, a witness got a really good look at the man, and has worked with an RCMP sketch artist to provide what he says is an accurate picture,” said Barber. On Oct. 20, 2013, at about 8:30 a.m., three mule deer were killed and one was left wounded on the ground. A witness heard the gunshots and walked over to the field on the north side of Mallory Road, just west of the Creston Golf Club. “He saw the deer, and a guy trying to drag one away,” Barber said. “He confronted the shooter and asked if he had permission to be on the property. The man said he didn’t. “The witness then saw the mule deer were does, and there is no open hunting season on them. When he told the shooter what he had done was illegal, the man panicked, said he was sorry and ran off into the bush and disappeared.” See POACHING, page 3
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