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Fairmont Hot Springs Resort staff Laura Jenkins and Eliza Molyneaux spin up cotton candy for those with a sweet tooth on Charity Ski Day on Saturday, March 7th at the resort’s ski area. The event was a fundraiser for the Invermere Public Library.
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Kootenay farmers can drop LOCAL NEWS Filtration at Paddy Ryan reservoir off old pesticides STEVE HUBRECHT steve@invermerevalleyecho.com Those looking to get rid of old, unused pesticides will be glad to hear a familiar program is returning. The CleanFARMS obsolete pesticide collection campaign launched in 1999, last came to the Kootenay region in 2012, and will be back this fall for the fourth time. “The aim is to ensure any pesticides used in agriculture are properly disposed of when they are no longer needed,” said CleanFARMS directors of obsolete collections Russel Hurst. CleanFARMS is an industry-funded nonprofit organization. It runs its obsolete collection programs across the country and hits up every region of every province every few years.
“Basically, it’s every three years we pass through,” said Hurst. “It’s free for farmers so it’s really well-received. It can be fairly expensive for farmers to individually dispose of any unwanted or outdated pesticides they may have around, since these are hazardous materials and there is a lot of red tape involved in getting rid of them. We remove those barriers.” The organization has not yet set up its collections sites in the Kootenay region (there will be two — one in Cranbrook and one in Creston), but it will probably do so in the next six to eight weeks, according to Hurst. The sites will be open for droping off pesticides sometime in late October or November, when farmers tend to not be as busy and more likely to have time to visit the collection centre. See A4
carries high costs STEVE HUBRECHT steve@invermerevalleyecho.com
Installing water filtration in the Paddy Ryan Reservoir would come with a price tag running into the millions of dollars. During discussion in a recent District of Invermere council meeting, chief administrative officer Chris Prosser had brought up the cost in response to points raised by Invermere councillor Paul Denchuk, who had suggested (before learning of the costs) that installing filtration at Paddy Ryan would be more effective than offering rebates for filter installation in individual homes in Invermere that have water problems. Prosser later clarified to The Valley Echo that he had referred to estimates for various options of municipal water treatment included in a cost-benefits analysis in the 2011 Water Treatment and Supply Report prepared for the district by planning company Urban Systems. The report puts the cost of water filtration for the Paddy Ryan Reservoir somewhere in the neighbourhood of $15 million to $18 million, rising to more than $20 million dollars by 2023. It puts the cost of installing UV disinfection at reservoir (which is the option See A5
QuintEssence LIVE at Christ Church, March 21st at 7:30 pm
The Visionary & the Ghost of Pynelogs
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HaPPy BIrTHday To PynELoGs!
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Celebrating 100 years