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Cranbrook’s Debs Howard
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Residents at Joseph Creek Village put their scooters to the test on Tuesday afternoon as staff organized a scooter race with some fun prizes on the line. The event also coincided with the opening of a new scooter storage facility on the property. An RCMP officer was also on hand to give a presentation on the rules of the road and proper safety procedures on the streets and sidewalks. The races, which were timed, kicked off with Cranbrook Mayor Lee Pratt setting the bar at 55 seconds for a course that included a lap around a roundabout and reverse-stall parking a scooter.
Cranbrook will get more streets done this year ARNE PETRYSHEN
The city had some good news on the 2015 Capital Roads Program — namely that since the tender came back lower than expected, all of the planned roads, including the optional ones, will be undertaken this year. The city received a single tender for the roads program from Interoute Construction Ltd, of which BA Blacktop in Cranbrook is a division. The submitted tender price
was just under $2.7 million, excluding taxes. That price includes both the Roads Program at $2.3 million and the resurfacing of the Airport Access Road within the airport property at $375,000. The Airport Access Road money comes from the Airport Fund. Eric Sharpe, director of Engineering and Development Services for the city, explained the news. “There was a certain number of roads out there that we
knew that we’d be able to do,” Sharpe said. “We had some optional work as well. The tender came in very goods as far as we were concerned, so we will be undertaking all the optional work as well.” Mayor Lee Pratt noted that meant that all the roads that were planned for will be resurfaced. “’The initial roads that we’d planned on resurfacing — we’re going ahead with that — and also the ones that are
the next option,” Pratt said. Sharpe said the tender was worded to account for the core roads that the city knew it had a budget to do, then a number of optional roadwork depending on how the tender came in. “The way that it came in, we will be doing that,” he said. Coun. Isaac Hockley asked if they have done a media release to inform the public about the roadwork news.
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Howard hits the big screen
Cranbrook actor Debs Howards’ first feature — “The Evil In Us”— premiering later this month BARRY COULTER
It’s been a busy year in the movie business for a Cranbrook actor. Debs Howard, currently working in the Vancouver area, just finished acting in a Canadian independent feature film, a thriller called the “Evil In Us,” that is now being shopped at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in France and will be premiering in Vancouver later this month. “We were shooting for about a month, a month and a half, last summer,” Howard said. “So it’s been in post-production since last September.” “The Evil In Us” is
Howard’s first feature, though she does have another coming out this year — “Even Lambs Have Teeth,” directed by Terry Miles. “They’ve got a really good cast in it — I’m not one of the leads. One of the leads is from Los Angeles, and the other works a ton in Vancouver.” But Howard plays the lead in “The Evil In Us.” When six school friends meet up for a fourth of July celebration on a remote island off the Washington coast, what they expect is a harmless weekend filled with fun and partying.
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