MONDAY APRIL 27, 2015
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DAY OF MOURNING
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Tuesday, May 12, Heritage Inn Cranbrook C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
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Students at McKim School are taking part in the Roots of Empathy program. Here’s what Mr. Sutherland’s Grade 4 class has to say about the program: Roots of Empathy is a great program to learn. It teaches you to care for one another. Roots is a program to teach children what to do and not to do with babies. It helps us to be kind and respectful. Roots helps us to understand feelings and sharing. Every visit the baby comes with something new to show us. Sometimes we measure and weigh him. We watch him grow and develop. We get to see the baby reach new milestones like crawling, eating, jumping and more. Schools should continue with Roots of Empathy because it is absolutely a great source of knowledge for everyone. We are lucky to have Roots at McKim. Thank you Brenda Kraushaar, baby William, Anali and Mr. Sutherland. Written by Mr. Sutherland’s grade 4 class
Dreadnaught ski racing drives local tourism Ski racing generates $400,000 this past season FOR THE BULLETIN
KIMBERLEY, BC – April 22, 2015 . The ski season this year was notable for all the wrong reasons. Unseasonably warm in February, unseasonable cold in April. But Dreadnaught Ski Racing persisted and is helping to grow the ski tourism market, with an estimated economic impact of over $400,000 this season in Kimberley. The Dreadnaught Ski Race Series, which ran 33 days of racing between Jan-
uary and March, is a cooperative effort between the Kimberley Alpine Racing Club, the Kimberley Alpine Resort, and the Kimberley Disabled Skier Association. The resurgence in ski racing this year saw 3,160 competitor days between Keurig, NorAm IPC, Masters, and Zone races. Dreadnaught Ski Racing was aided this year by $15,000 in funding to purchase racing infrastructure including timing clocks, netting, and a power cord that extended snowmaking to the far reaches of the Dreadnaught race course. Funding was provided by the City of Kimberley as part of the BC Resort Municipality Initiative (RMI). Kimberley is
one of 14 BC communities eligible to participate in the RMI, a provincial program that provides small, tourism-based municipalities with funding to invest in tourism related infrastructure and amenities in order to grow their visitor economies. According to volunteer organizer Donna Briggs, “This race season would not have been possible without the funding for race infrastructure and the godlike grooming provided by the Kimberley Alpine Resort. Both enabled us to produce an environment and conditions that could endure one of the most difficult seasons in years.” See RACING, page 4
The Rails 2 Trails is an asset that the communities of Kimberley and Cranbrook, and surrounding Regional District area, are justifiably proud of. The Rails 2 Trails Society is responsible for stewardship of the trail, and makes all the decisions about projects and maintenance. Members also do a lot of hands on volunteer work. If you’d like to have a say in the Trail’s future, attend the upcoming Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, May 12 at 7 p.m. at the Cranbrook Heritage Inn. Society President Rob McIntyre says one and all are invited to the AGM, which alternates location yearly between Kimberley and Cranbrook. “As an all volunteer society, we need your help,” he said. “Thanks to seasonal workers and volunteers the trail is looking great. It’s heavily used by both locals and visitors.” That help can come in the form of donations, volunteering or becoming a new member of the Society. In the past year the Society has taken on a
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number of projects, including the purchase and use of a trail truck and equipment, vegetation management (noxious weed control), new benches and a kiosk have been purchased, trail maps and brochures have been printed, guidelines posted, trail guides and security measures implemented, a new website has been developed, and financial statements and budgets clarified. “We appreciate our ongoing funding support from the Columbia Basin Trust, the cities of Cranbrook and Kimberley, and now the RDEK,” McIntyre said. “We thank everyone for being a friend to the trail and we hope to see you at the AGM.”