TUESDAY MAY 5, 2015
POETRY EVENT
STUART ROSS AT BEAN TREE
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CLIMBING CENTRE
KIMBERLEY KLING OFF
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As noted in yesterday’s sports section of the Daily Bulletin, the bulls were in a mean mood at the Dynamiter’s Bull-A-Rama last Saturday evening, allowing only four cowboys to complete their rides all evening. Above, a cowboy gets a close look at the bull’s eye.
Decision on flume project expected very soon C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
Residents may have noticed some work being done beside Mark Creek in the area where phase two of the flume rehab will take place. However, that work is underground pipe work that has to be done in any event, and is not specifically a part of the flume rehab. The money for it comes out of a different budget, says Mayor Don Mc-
Cormick. But a decision on the flume project for this year should be made very soon. The window for tender documents closed yesterday, May 4, and the city will now look at them to determine whether the project can proceed this year with the money available. McCormick has been adamant that the project will not proceed if it cannot be done with the available pro-
vincial/federal grant money and the city’s budgeted portion. The Mayor says that because the City went back to the project designer’s (Aqua Tex) in January and asked them look at the original design and find efficiencies, tenders went out later than was ideal. “May 4 is late in the season,” McCormick said. “A lot of contractors have work already lined up and we were concerned about the
impact of that on costs in the tender.” He says that if the tenders come back too high there will be no work on the flume this summer. “In that case, we would re-tender early in 2016. It’s important that the tenders come back within a variance we can deal with. If not, we will have to go back to the province and the feds and renegotiate the timeline.”
ShelterBox active in Nepal Kimberley Rotary asks for continued support of ShelterBox program GR AHAM MANN Kimberley Rotary Club
ShelterBox Response Teams from the UK have been active in distributing tents to four hospitals in Kathmandu (many of the hospital buildings had been condemned and medical staff had been treating patients in the open). ShelterBox is committed to doing everything we can for the families devastated by the earthquake in Nepal. When a major disaster such as Nepal’s occurs, we already have our aid on the ground before many new donations are received. While we
cannot, therefore, accept donations specifically for the Nepal crisis, your donations ensure that we are ready to help families in desperate need as soon as disaster strikes. The Government of Canada has launched a matching program which means that for every dollar individual Canadians give to registered charities working in Nepal, the Government will contribute an equal amount to their Nepal Earthquake Relief Fund. At this time ShelterBox Canada will not be submitting donations for matching to the Canadian Government. In order for organizations to participate in matching, they must guarantee that all funds raised will be needed or spent in Nepal at this time. See SHELTERBOX, Page 4