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EK SPCA gets $84,000 grant TRE VOR CR AWLEY
The East Kootenay branch of the B.C. SPCA is getting some help to address a cat overpopulation in Cranbrook thanks to an $84,000 grant from PetSmart Charities. The grant will go toward spaying and neutering 950 cats in Cranbrook and surrounding areas this year, both owned cats as well as free-roaming felines in four colonies. “This grant from PetSmart Charities of Canada is fantastic news for Cranbrook. We have a constant intake of cats into our shelter,” says BC SPCA East Kootenay Branch manager Brenna Baker. “There isn’t a day that goes by that we don’t have a waiting list of cats to get into the shelter, looking for
loving, forever homes.” A major focus of the BC SPCA’s five-year Strategic Plan is addressing B.C.’s massive cat overpopulation problem, as tens of thousands of outdoor cats are left to fend for themselves outside, suffering from illness, injury, starvation, predator attacks and more. Cranbrook has a large population of outdoor-living cats, and the grant will go toward sterilizing cats that would otherwise be left to reproduce, as well as assisting families and individuals who are unable to spay or neuter their pet due to financial constraints.
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Moyie cabin robbed, burned T R E V O R C R AW L E Y
A Cranbrook family is reeling after thieves stole a large amount of tools and power equipment from a cabin out in Moyie, which they then set on fire as they fled. On Tuesday morning, the cabin, which is adjacent to Cotton Tie Creek, was broken into and the tools and equipment were loaded into a vehicle that exited out of a driveway at the top of the Moyie bluffs. In addition to the tools, the thieves also tried to steal a side-byside ATV by cutting the ignition out and prying the hood up, according to
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SNOW WHITE’S NOT WAITING FOR HER PRINCE TO COME! Rather, the princess in exile is bearing down in the bocce pits, along with her dwarfish team members, at the Sam Steele Days bocce pits in Baker Park. Put on by the JCI Kootenay, the bocce pits have proved a fun and popular draw for the past three years of Sam Steele Days. See Pages 9, 30 and 31 for more images of the 51st Sam Steele Days festival, held June 19-21, 2015 in Cranbrook.
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Brad Scriver, as the cabin belongs to his mother. “The cabin’s pretty well hidden from the road, it’s a little ways off the railroad tracks,” said Scriver. “It definitely seems to me that someone knew exactly where they were going. “It’s very odd because it’s one of those situations where if you didn’t know the cabin was there, you probably wouldn’t have found it.” As the culprits left, they also set fire to the place, which has caused in excess of $50,000, Scriver added.
See CABIN, Page 3