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PROUDLY SERVING KIMBERLEY AND AREA SINCE 1932 | Vol. 83, Issue 26 | www.dailybulletin.ca BEAT THE WINTER BLUES
Winter Mayhem in Kimberley C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
It’s Winter Mayhem week in Kimberley, beginning Saturday, February 7. Winter Mayhem has grown out of the hugely successful Mayhem in the Platzl rail jam last year. Rather than just limit it to one night, says organizer Cora Miller, why not celebrate winter in Kimberley with a week long series of events. It will all culminate with the rail jam on February 14. The rail jam has been moved up to the base of the ski hill as there simply isn’t enough snow downtown this year to construct the course. But it will still feature all the excitement and energy of last year’s event. There is lots to get excited about, Miller says, beginning with a snowshoe adventure on Saturday morning, February 7, at 10 a.m. The tour, hosted by the Kimberley Nature Park Society, departs from the Swan Avenue entrance at 10 a.m. and will take about two hours. This is a moderate hike. Participants should be comfortable walking some distance in snowshoes.
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Kimberley’s Tom Buchy got off to a good start at the CDI BC Men’s Curling Championship in Vernon this week and is still in the hunt for a playoff spot. The winner of the event goes to Canada’s biggest curling bonspiel, the Tim Horton’s Brier in Calgary beginning February 28. Above, Buchy calls a shot in round robin action.
You could win $10,000 Man fatally shot by RCMP had a history of impaired driving IIO INVESTIGATION
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If you come across a Kimberley Dynamiter this weekend — and you will see them at Overwaitea in Kimberley and Save On Foods in Cranbrook on Saturday, February 7 and 15 — stop and buy a ticket. They Dynamiters are selling $20 tickets on a progressive 50/50 draw that could see a pot as large as $10,000.
Yahk resident Waylon Jesse Edey, aged 39, was killed in a police shooting on the highway near Castlegar on January 29. The 39-year-old man shot and killed during an attempted traffic stop last week had a history of impaired driving and had received a three-year driving
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prohibition in February 2012. According to court records, Waylon Jesse Edey was due in court in Cranbrook on February 15 facing charges of operating a motor vehicle while disqualified, driving while prohibited, and fleeing from police, following an incident on March 11 last year at Moyie. In March 2011, he was sen-
tenced to 14 days in jail and received a two-year driving ban after admitting to impaired driving in an August 2009 incident at Creston. In February 2012, he received a 60-day jail sentence and threeyear driving prohibition after being convicted of driving while prohibited and failing to provide a breath sample, following an
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incident at Kaslo in June 2010. Police shot Edey on the evening of January 29 near the east end of the Kinnaird bridge on Highway 3. He was taken to Kootenay-Boundary Regional Hospital in Trail, but died soon after arriving.
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