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City goes into water conservation mode Watering green spaces and specified parks will be discontinued; Public invited to join voluntary watering restrictions

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Effective Friday, July 24, the City of Cranbrook will undertake voluntary watering restrictions and invites the public to join in. The City will discontinue watering the green spaces and specified parks. If further watering restrictions are required irrigation around Cityowned buildings and Cemeteries will follow. In addition, by adjusting the flows on underground sprinklers in the City playgrounds and playfields, irrigation water consumption can be reduced by up to 30

per cent. “Even with this little bit of rain here, we’re just being cautious with our water supply right now. Again, it’s just voluntary, the city doing their part by cutting back some water usage and we’re asking the public to cut back wherever they can as well,” said Derek Anderson, the Public Works manager with the City of Cranbrook. The City will discontinue watering at the following green-spaces and specified parks: • Green belt triangle located off Victoria Avenue • Pop Price Park • Staple Crescent

• Pinecrest • ACT Park • Highway Boulevard • Rotary Trail • Kinsmen Park off Victoria • Balment Park – West-

ern Financial Place If required, the Cemeteries and buildings will follow: • Western Financial Place • Cranbrook Public Li-

brary • R.C.M.P Building • Fire Hall • Chamber of Commerce Irrigation will be reduced at the following

playgrounds and playfields: • Quad Ball Park • Confederation Ball Park • Moir Park • Rotary Park

• MacKinnon Park • Lions Park City staff ask for your cooperation and encourage residents to reduce water consumption where possible.

RCMP make arrest in break and enter cases Centre 64 in Kimberley broken into again; police say suspect arrested involved in some, but not all, recent break ins CAROLYN GRANT

Kimberley RCMP have made an arrest of a suspect they believe may be involved in some of the numerous break and enter thefts in the last few weeks. But they do not believe the suspect, a 26-year old man, is responsible for all the reported incidents. The suspect was arrested for shoplifting on July 15 and follow up investigation linked him to a break and enter along with several thefts in Kimberley, says Cpl. Chris Newel of the Kim-

berley RCMP. Newel says the suspect has no fixed address but has been around Kimberley for a while. He is believed to be originally from Cranbrook. “Over the past several weeks there have been numerous thefts in the Kimberley area,” Newel said. “Police have been focusing their efforts on making an arrest, following up on leads and implementing some covert investigative techniques.

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PHOTO COURTESY JOHN ARMSTRONG

An ongoing heritage restoration project came to a joyous conclusion recently. D ignitaries and guests gathered on Saturday, July 11, at Fort Steele Heritage Town to celebrate the grand opening of McVittie House and Land Surveying Office. See full feature on Page 3. Pictured above, left to right: Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett; Brad Froggatt, Director of Heritage Services Fort Steele; Bronwyn Denton, President of the British Columbia Land Surveyor (BCLS) and Past President of the Association of British Columbia Land Surveyors (ABCLS)

Council briefed on theatre operations ARNE PE TRYSHEN

Things seem to be proceeding apace at the Key City Theatre. Galen Olstead, director of the Key City Theatre, was at Monday’s city meeting to give council an update and overview of activities over the past year. Olstead gave a brief snapshot of the workings of the Key City. “We have three full-time staff — myself, a marketing director and a technical direc-

tor,” Olstead said. “We bring in event crew as needed, so the sound operators and the stage hands.” Olstead said they are then supported by one part-time box office associate and one contract bookkeeper. “So it’s a pretty small staff,” he said. “Especially when we see the level of activity that is coming through the facility.” Olstead said they are also supported by a volunteer core of 85 registered volunteers, who contributed the com-

bined service hours of 3,835 in 2013. The facility sees 171 total days booked. “This past year was actually a somewhat slower year than past years, and looking ahead to next year, we’ll probably see about a 30 per cent increase on this activity,” he said. “The biggest portion is from not-forprofit community rentals from the local community.” Then another 20 per cent of the usage is from the school district, 10 per cent is com-

mercial rentals and seven per cent is taken up by the Key City Theatre’s own activity. He said there is quite a range of revenues, from free events all the way up to a ceiling of around $40,000 for revenues from ticket sales. “The revenues that we see get distributed back to artist fees, technicians, theatre staff, advertisers, promoters and the presenting organizations,” he said.

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