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Evacuation alert lifted at Baynes Lake wildfire FOR THE TOWNSMAN
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The federal government announced $3.34 million in funding for high-speed Internet infrastructure in the Kootenay region on Wednesday. Pictured above: Rob Gay, RDEK chair, James Moore, Minister of Industry, David Wilks, Kootenay Columbia MP and Neil Muth, President and CEO of the Columbia Basin Trust.
Feds provide funding for rural broadband TRE VOR CR AWLEY
High speed internet is coming to some more rural parts of the Kootenays as the federal government announced $3.34 million in funding for the Columbia Basin Trust to provide broadband service for 11,000 households. With James Moore, the federal Minister of Industry, in attendance, Kootenay Colum-
bia MP David Wilks made the announcement alongside local government representatives and Internet Service Providers (ISP) partners. With a projected completion date of 2017, the goal is to provide download speeds of up to 10 megabits per second (Mbps) to households in rural areas across the region such as Baynes Lake, Elko, Riondel,
Fruitvale, Canal Flats and many others. “Today we live in an increasingly borderless world connected by the Internet,” said Wilks. “New technology has created tremendous opportunity for canadians to communicate with each other and for businesses to compete globally. “The internet makes things
cheaper and the world smaller.” Currently, 94 per cent of Canadians have access to high-speed internet, but the challenge becomes servicing the remaining 6 per cent in rural areas of the country, Wilks added.
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The BC Wildfire Service is being thanked for its efforts on the Baynes Lake area wildfire. The fire has been contained and an evacuation alert that has been in place since Sunday has been lifted. “This is a good day,” says RDEK Board Chair Rob Gay. “Things escalated very quickly on Saturday night when the fire broke out, and we are grateful for the tireless efforts of the crews, who have worked around the clock in trying conditions to bring the fire under control and protect our residents. I would also like to acknowledge the efforts of our Emergency Social Services team, our Emergency Program personnel, our Jaffray
“Things escalated very quickly on Saturday night when the fire broke out, and we are grateful for the tireless efforts of the crews, who have worked around the clock in trying conditions to bring the fire under control and protect our residents.” Rob Gay
and Baynes Lake fire fighters and the many volunteers who have also been doing everything they can to help support area residents.”
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June temps smash weather records ARNE PETRYSHEN
The high June temperatures were the hottest ever recorded in Cranbrook, and the temperature on June 28 broke the previous record fro June from 1987. “In June, nine new daily temperature records were set, including the all-time June maximum temperature,” said Lisa Caldwell, Environment Canada Meteorologist.
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