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Eight Council candidates face the voters Part I of II
C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
The eight candidates for Kimberley City Council appeared in front of voters Monday evening at the All Candidates Forum hosted by the Chamber of Commerce. They answered a wide-ranging series of questions, which included topics such as infrastructure, the arts, deer, the reserve fund and the flume project. Given the length of the forum, this report will be in two parts. After brief introductory comments by each candidate, moderator John Ross got down to business with the first question: How does the City of Kimberley keep up or catch up with maintaining and replacing its aging infrastructure? “We all drove here tonight over some of our infrastructure issues,” said Sandra Roberts. She went on to say that there were only three
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Candidates for Kimberley Council discuss the issues at the forum Monday evening. From left to right, Nigel Kitto, Bev Middlebrook, Darren Chase, Kent Goodwin, Darryl Oakley, Albert Hoglund, Brent Bush and Sandra Roberts. ways, either up taxes, try to make sure that the City gets its fair share of grants, or find ways to increase the tax base. She pointed out that
former Mayor Jim Ogilvie (whose name would be mentioned often through the evening) thought Kimberley needed a population of about 12,000.
“We’re only half way there,” Roberts said. Brent Bush agreed that the only real way to address the looming infrastructure deficit was to grow the community.
Right now the problem was being addressed in a patchwork fashion, Bush said, and that was not the ideal way to go about it. Coun. Albert Ho-
glund said the City has always struggled with replacing infrastructure but a fund was started three years ago to help address it and water and sewer rates were
hiked up. “I fought for years against raising water rates, but I realize that was a big mistake,” he said. See FORUM, page 3
SunMine on track for January completion C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
Construction on Kimberley’s unique SunMine project, the largest solar farm in western Canada, is proceeding on pace. According to the latest project update, last week the Prime Contractor Conergy Canada and construction manager SkyFire Energy completed the installation of all 4,032 photovoltaic modules. Modules are now arranged in ninety six 38
foot by 20 foot tables and have been mounted on masts topped with a specialized tracking system that will rotate to track the sun. There are 42 photovoltaic modules per table top. Once the installation and commissioning is complete the table tops in the picture (right) will tilt at similar angles to maximize solar exposure and energy generation. Trackers provide approximately 30 per cent more energy than fixed JOHN ALLEN PHOTOS The SunMine, looking east. panels. Construction is continuing on the SunMine project. See SUNMINE, p. 3