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Kimberley’s tall poet, Ken Johnson, left, had some inspirational words for Terry Fox runners prior to the starting gun on Sunday. See more from the annual Terry Fox run in tomorrow’s Bulletin.
Group intent on bringing back airshow
Plan is to run opposite years from Lethbridge BARRY COULTER
A new not-for-profit society has been set up to help bring an airshow back to the Canadian Rockies International Airport on a regular basis. Darrel Garton of Calgary, who has worked on airshows in B.C. and Alberta, is working to implement a biennial event, that would take place every two years starting in 2016.
“What we’re trying to do is bringing the event back to Cranbrook,” Garton told the Townsman. “I have a couple of air how people here in Calgary that have been in the airshow industry for several years. We’ve also been asked by some of the people in Cranbrook to help bring it back. “Over the years, there’ve been one or two, then it stopped, then it came back, then it stopped — that kind of thing. “We’re looking at bringing this back on a two-year term, starting in 2016.
“We’re proposing a two-day event, with a twilight show in the evening, with the planes doing the fireworks — that kind of thing. Abbottsford just ran their first twilight show this year, and it went over really well. So this is what we’ve been trying to plan for you guys. Fireworks over the mountains, that kind of thing. It should be pretty exciting.” A society has already been set up — the Cranbrook Internation Airshow — which is being run as a not-for-profit. See AIR SHOW, page 3
Gang activity down in Cranbrook, Kimberley thanks to RCMP efforts BARRY COULTER
The new head of B.C.’s anti-gang agency says police have made “significant headway in the efforts to curtail gang activity.” Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit chief officer Kevin Hackett said earlier this month that the “significant decline” in organized crime homicides comes after a series of high-profile investigations leading to
charges, as well as new initiatives to prevent or reduce gang membership. Nearly 100 organized crime figures or gang-related individuals were arrested and charged last year with more than 270 offences in close to 30 B.C. communities, Hackett said. In Cranbrook, gang activity, particularly in the drug trade, is down, after intense police work. See GANG, Page 3
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