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MADD launches Project Red Ribbon in Kimberley Tie a red ribbon to your car for the holiday season C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
27 years ago MADD Canada started a seasonal awareness campaign to get people thinking about safe and sober driving. That campaign, called Project Red Ribbon, targets the Christmas and New Year holiday season because it is traditionally the busiest time of year for social gatherings, and therefore, for impaired driving. Last year a million red ribbons were handed out to tie onto cars. These ribbons symbolize those lost to impaired driving accidents and those injured, their lives forever changed, says Katryna Sigurdson of MADD Kimberley/Cranbrook. “With the upcoming holidays, we want to remind people to never drive while impaired,” Sigurdson said. “Don’t take a drive with an impaired driver; plan a taxi, get a designated driver. “If you see an impaired driver, pull over, call 911 and give them as much information as possible. Sigurdson was at city hall this week handing out red ribbons to launch the campaign. As part of Project Red Ribbon, MADD has requested that all city vehicles have red ribbons tied on from November 1 to January 1. “I would like to thank the City, the RCMP, the Fire Department and Ambulance Services for their support
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Cpl. Chris Newel of the Kimberley RCMP, Katryna Sigurdson from MADD Kimberley/Cranbrook,John Adolphe from the Kimberley Fire Department and Mayor Ron McRae officially launch Project Red Ribbon for 2014.
Kimberley mayoral candidate forum, part II Part II of II C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
Continuing from the Tuesday evening Mayoral Candidates Forum, Don McCormick, Doug Johnson and Ron McRae were asked their position on the SunMine project. “The project is well underway so it’s our responsibility to support it,” McCormick said. “But as it stands today, it’s not an economic development project. It’s an interesting project waiting for a reason to be. We need to ratchet it up so it’s producing substantial power and leverage it to attract industry
seeking clean, affordable power.” “I absolutely support it,” said McRae. “It’s been a goal of mine since 2011 to get it going and it’s not been an easy task. It was a difficult challenge for Council, but we have been successful. We need to bring it to the commission stage and then look ar possibly increasing the size. It’s all about proper strategic planning so investors will want to invest in it.” “I’d say it’s a good thing because the City has already signed the contract,” Johnson said. “But I get nervous when government gets involved in industry. I get really worried when the City of Kimberley gets involved.
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Have you heard of the flume?” The next issue was renewal of Kimberley’s infrastructure. Infrastructure renewal is underway, McRae said.
“We are pro-actively planning and looking at ways to manage these projects. We recently approved a five-year capital plan with dollar values attached. It gives us a time line. It’s a
huge step forward and hasn’t been done before. “We are a resort community and we need to look like one and act like one.” Johnson said he listened to the discussion among
Council candidates Monday night about roads, sewer and water. “They said our infrastructure is 75 years old in places. I live in Black Bear, the 75 year old pipes are the new ones. “But we’ve spent all the money. If I was Mayor I’d jump into ditches to collect pop and beer cans to get enough money. I’m not joking.” “We have 74 per cent of our capital assets depreciated. A healthy asset pool is 50 50, half old, half new,” McCormick said. “We need an additional 3.6 million a year just not to dig the hole any deeper. See FORUM, page 3