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I’m thinking of the conference centre and the aquatic centre.” McCormick said that Sommerville had concerns in terms of people being embarrassed by a hard look at phase one. “At the end of the day there should be embarrassment,” McCormick said. “I am embarrassed. But the key is to understand what happened. That’s at the root of the recommendations and the decision last week to defer the flume project.”
A s m a l l airplane used for fire suppression c ra s h e d w h i l e fighting a wildfire near William Hilts C o l d Lake, Alberta, on Friday, killing a civilian pilot. Throughout the weekend, weather hampered efforts to get to the site, but the body of 38-year-old William Alexander Garvie Hilts of Cranbrook, B.C. was recovered Monday. Earlier, Jeff Barry of Conair Aerial Firefighting said Hilts was in his fourth firefighting season with the company. The blaze near Cold Lake caused Cenovus Energy and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. to pull about 2,000 workers and shut down their oilsands operations Saturday. The closures have resulted in lost production of about 233,000 barrels of oil a day roughly a 10 per cent loss of the province’s daily production of oilsands crude. And wildfires have forced about 2,000 people from their homes in northern Alberta. Cyndi Taron, director of emergency management with the Municipal District of Opportunity, said a state of emergency was put in place Sunday night for the area, 330 kilometres north of Edmonton.
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DARRYL OAKLEY PHOTO
The Selkirk grads had a long but productive day on their Bottle Drive last Saturday, making $2000 towards grad activities. Above grad Josh Singbeil hefts a few bags of empties.
What we learned from the flume, phase 1 Nine recommendations from CAO C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
At Kimberley City Council on Monday evening, Council received a report from City CAO Scott Sommerville entitled Learnings from Phase I of the Mark Creek Flume Project. “In response to council’s request that the Auditor General for Local Government conduct a perfor-
mance audit on the first phase of the flume project, and the AGLG politely declining the City’s invitation, I have taken the initiative to review the project and provide some recommendations to guide future projects,”Sommerville wrote. He then went on to make nine recommendations (see sidebar, page 3) around procurement policy, records keeping, how projects should be brought to the public etc. “Looking at the nine recommendations, there isn’t anything that’s a silver bullet,” said Mayor Don Mc-
Cormick. “There’s nothing we can point to exactly and say that was it. If people were expecting an epiphany, they may be disappointed.” Rather, the recommendations are a reflection of policies and procedures that had become outdated and had not been updated in some time, the Mayor says. “With small projects you don’t see the consequences,” he said. “You can outrun them, but when it comes to the big ones, you can’t. “If you look back over time, there has been criticism of major projects.
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SATURDAY, MAY 30TH, 2015 Kimberley Civic Centre, Rotary Drive (outdoors weather permitting) FROM 1:00 – 5:00 PM Showcasing Kimberley’s awesome ways to be active and healthy. Information, inspiration, activities, music, snacks, fun and prizes!