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The School District 5 Metis Jiggers put on two dances to celebrate Louis Riel and Metis Week at a ceremony on Thursday morning in front CRANBROOK of city hall. The City of Cranbrook proclaimed Nov. 20 to 27 Metis Week. See more, Page 3.
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TREVOR CRAWLEY and we21 havet a meeting ber forsnext It’s a period of transition Monday, ovemplanned N right now at city hall, as the just a familiarization with city incumbents still remain in hall, getting ready to introtheir offices until Dec. 8, duce to the council some of which will see the new mayor the decisions we have to and councillors take their make right at the beginning seats in council chambers. regarding committees and Though the election re- what’s expected of us,” said sults are still fresh, the newly Lee Pratt, the mayor-elect. elected aren’t resting on their The Dec. 8 meeting will be laurels as they prepare for mostly a ceremonial affair as their tenures in office. Pratt and the rest of the coun“I’ve been meeting with cillors are sworn into office, some of the city managers which will be officiated by and the CAO Wayne Staudt Judge Grant Sheard.
After that, it’s down to business. “We have to go to work, and figure out a plan for addressing the immediate capital expenditure budget, which has to be submitted to the provincial government, so that’ll be our first priority, we’ll be looking at that and going to work on that,” Pratt said. While Pratt is new to civic politics, he’ll have Wesly Graham at the table, who is a veteran of nine years as an
elected councillor in Creston. Graham said he has no problem answering questions and giving advice to his rookie colleagues. “I have no problem doing that,” said Graham. “I’m not there to be that guy, but I have no problem providing guidance to the new councillors or mayor around the table on process, Roberts Rules or governance. I think that everybody’s also going to be looking on brushing up on that.” For Graham, the first
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After being the first to bag a management animal, Nikita Dalke got the chance to hunt for a trophy, and she was successful once again. Dalke claimed an Aoudad sheep in the latest episode of Extreme Huntress, as she faces off against five other female competitors for the title. Dalke and her competitors filmed their experience at the 777 Ranch in Hondo, Texas over the summer. Episodes are being released on Sundays at www.extremehuntress.com. Each competitor was given the choice of a management animal and a trophy animal over the course of the six day hunting affair. Dalke chose the Aoudad—native to North Africa—because of it’s uniqueness “He looked pretty cool, they’re neat-looking animals and I really liked the looks of him. The ranch manager said he was one of the hardest ones to hunt on the ranch, but it was mainly looks that made me want to try,” Dalke said.
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meeting will be a lot of pomp and circumstance, with the real work in the days ahead. “You’re getting sworn in, you’re getting committee appointments, so it’s not like it’s going to be doing a ton of business on [Dec. 8]. My recommendation right after that is to sit down and do our fiveyear strategic plan, and I think we’ll see that happen on the quicker side, so we can go right into budget process,” Graham said.
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