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Vol. 64, Issue 37
The home kitchen advantage
Kathy Morey wins opening semifinal in Stone Soup Challenge
THE WEEK ON THE BEAT
A busy week for police calls ARNE PETRYSHEN
T R E VO R C R AWL EY
In some ways, Monday’s semifinal matchup of the Kootenay Granite Stone Soup Challenge wasn’t fair. After all, Kathy Morey had home field advantage as she made her soup in her own kitchen at the Salvation Army. Morey received a bye from the first round, and managed to put herself into the final event, as her beef barley was voted as the top soup over a ginger chicken creation from Chef Rusty Cox of the Heidout Restaurant and Brewhouse. Though Cox has 18 years experience in top restaurants and resorts around the world, it was Morey and her past decade of experience at the Salvation Army soup kitchen that gave her the edge. And she definitely
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Kathy Morey, the Salvation Army’s own cook, took a hand in the Kootenay Granite Stone Soup Challenge against Chef Rusty Cox of the Heidout Restaurant and Brewhouse on Monday morning. wasn’t fazed by having another chef in her territory. “It’s so much fun meeting another chef from the Heidout and the Prestige and the St. Eugene—it’s awe-
some,” Morey said. “It’s actually nice to have a chef in my kitchen.” After observing the first three preliminary challenges, Morey had an idea of what she wanted to work with
once she got into the pantry to start making her soup. “I had a couple ideas but then watching the other cooks and seeing what they were using, I was thinking, ‘Maybe
I’ll try this’,” said Morey. “And they didn’t actually take it out of the freezer, and it was still here Monday morning.”
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It was a busy week for Cranbrook RCMP as officers responded to 172 calls for service from Monday, Feb. 16 to Sunday, Feb. 22. Staff Sgt. Dave Dubnyk gave a rundown of the past week’s incidents. February 16 1:03 a.m. Police received a report of domestic dispute. Upon investigation a male was arrested for domestic assault and lodged in cells. A female at the scene was found in possession of a small amount of cocaine. That information has been forwarded to Crown council to decide whether to pursue charges. 3:03 a.m. Report of vandalism at complainant’s residence. 11:14 a.m. Report of a local individual breaching his court-ordered conditions. 11:54 a.m. Report of an assault. 1:18 p.m. Report of a disturbance. The caller said a local individual
was throwing things around and threatening to harm themselves. When police arrived things had calmed down and no further problems were reported. 1:56 p.m. Report of suspicious male hanging around Walmart parking lot, possibly checking vehicles. The male could not be located upon police arrival to the scene. 2:50 p.m. A found wallet was turned into the police department. 3:17 p.m. Report of lost licence plate. 4:09 p.m. Break and enter reported at a local residence. 5:40 p.m. Report of a suicidal person. Police attended and spoke the individual. They did not determine the person to be a danger to themselves. The person was taken to be with a family member for the night. 6:18 p.m. Police received a report of assault.
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ANALYSIS
Life in the urban-wildlife interface TRE VOR CR AWLEY
When it comes to the problem of urban deer, some communities, including Cranbrook, have turned to culls as a solution, if not a temporary one. And if you don’t believe they’re a problem, go to Youtube and search for a Cranbrook incident where a deer beat the crap out of someone’s dog. Imagine if that had been a child. Communities across the province, including Cran-
There is no easy alternative to a cull of urban deer —including translocation
brook and Invermere and now Oak Bay on Vancouver Island, have completed culls in the past or are looking at culls as a solution to urbanized deer. Culls work in the sense that the urban deer population is suddenly and immediately reduced, however, over time, the urban deer population will come back up as animals wander into town from the outskirts. In other words, culls are a
short-term solution for an ongoing issue. Municipalities dealing with urbanized deer are caught in a bind, because under the Wildlife Act, the province has jurisdiction over the issue and municipalities need provincial approval to undertake any kind of action. Culls are an emotionally-charged issue — one only has to look at cases where deer traps were deliberately damaged by vandals in Kim-
berley and Cranbrook last year. Plus, there’s the cost. Cranbrook has a permit to cull 50 deer, but city council is estimating a cost of $500 to cull a deer, with a budget of $12,750. That adds up to only 25 animals. Some argue why translocation isn’t being considered. After all, it seems like an easy enough solution to tranquilize the deer and move them
out to the wild. However, according to Jeff Morgan, the Manager of Policy with the Fish and Wildlife Branch, it’s not so simple. Translocation of ungulates, including animals such as deer, elk and caribou, isn’t without it’s challenges, he said. “One is the trauma that can occur during the capture and handling processes themselves, so the deer can be breaking limbs and injur-
ing themselves through that process,” said Morgan. “Then the other one is capture-myopathy — that’s the term — basically it sets itself up under stressful conditions where the deer are exerting themselves and exerting their muscles in an environment within their body that is low on oxygen. And that can cause serious degeneration of muscle tissue and death, and that is very prominent in deer.”
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