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PROUDLY SERVING KIMBERLEY AND AREA SINCE 1932 | Vol. 83, Issue 36 | www.dailybulletin.ca URBAN DEER
Animal Alliance pledges $10,000 to translocation study in EK C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
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The community waited through a long, snowless winter but fresh powder finally arrived this weekend and skiers and boarders were out in huge numbers to enjoy it. Kimberley Alpine Resort received more snow overnight Friday than any other resort in BC.
Very close race in final soup challenge heat
Chef Doug Wagner wins with a cheeseburger chowder
CRANBROOK – The last challenge in round one did not disappoint. Chef Marc Rathpoller of Tuscany’s and Chef Doug Wagner of St Eugene Mission Resort put on a skilled culinary show. The two chefs are used to a fast-paced, diverse kitchen that produces both mouth-watering pub food as well as a customized, highend gourmet menu. They each moved quickly, skillfully, and
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Chefs Marc and Doug serve up their soups. with confidence. But only one will move to next week’s semi-finals. By a score of 27 to 24, today’s challenge was
won by Chef Wagner with a cheeseburger chowder. Chef Rathpoller impressed with his own soup creation: an apple, sausage and
squash soup with potato. It was the closest competition to date, and Salvation Army guests greatly enjoyed the soup feast. “My soup started to evolve as time went,” said Chef Wagner. “My goal was to create a hearty, healthy flavourful soup – the kind of soup I myself would want to eat on chilly spring day.” “It’s been a lot of fun,” said Chef Rathpoller. “My soup combined classic flavours that worked well together and focused on nutrition and substance. Doug and I had a great time working in the
kitchen. I’m really glad to have participated in this and enjoyed my experience. It felt good to cook for my community.” The semi-final events, sponsored by College of the Rockies Professional Cook Training, begin next week. On Monday, Chef Rusty Cox of The Heid Out Restaurant and Brewhouse will compete against the Salvation Army’s own chef Kathy Morey, who has been head chef in the soup kitchen for nearly 11 years.
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As reported in the Bulletin last week, the Animal Alliance, a national animal rights group, is willing to hit B.C. in the wallet to protest the treatment of animals. They are mounting an anti-wolf cull campaign to try to keep people from visiting British Columbia. However, the group is also willing to put their money into non-lethal methods at wildlife management. To that end the group has pledged $10,000, matching City of Kimberley’s contribution, towards a study into translocating deer. Mayor Don McCor-
mick says that the City will take Animal Alliance up on the offer, though it has yet to be formally approved by Council. Liz White, Campaign Director for Animal Alliance, says that ever since deer culls began to become a wildlife management tool in British Columbia, her group has been advocating looking for alternatives. However, she says, relocation of deer is not without problems and must be approached with a degree of caution. “Something is going on with the mule deer population in the East Kootenay in the wild,” she said.
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WEIRD WEATHER
February set some new records ARNE PETRYSHEN Cranbrook Daily Townsman
It’s been a record setting February in terms of warm temperatures. Lisa Coldwells, Environment Canada warning preparedness meteorologist, noted that the weather has been rather remarkable, with seven high temperature records broken this month. She said it is common to have one record broken, but seven is a much rarer occurrence. Many of those were lumped together. “You had five in a
row, from the 10th of February to the 14th,” Coldwells said. “Those are all-time records.” In fact, she noted that those particular days, the records go all the way back to 1901 in the Cranbrook area. The records didn’t get to the all-time max for February, which is 13.9 degrees celsius. “The warmest temperature we’ve had so far this month is 10.7,” she said. “So we’re not extreme, but on those specific days the records were broken.”
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