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Smoke floods valley from south and west BARRY COULTER
After a couple of days of relatively clear skies in the Cranbrook-Kimberley area, the valley is once again
filled with thick smoke — largely from the enormous wildfires burning south of the border. “We’ve had smoke from
large fires in the U.S.A come into the area (Wednesday) afternoon, with the southerly wind,” said Fanny Bernard, Fire Information Offi-
cer with the Southeast Fire Centre. “That was mixed in from larger incidents from the Kamloops Fire Centre as well, just west of the East
Kootenay. Bernard said the smoke would likely dissipate Thursday afternoon, but unfortunately the winds
Idlewild yields up its treasures
are forecasted to shift again to a southerly direction (from the south), which will fill valleys in southeast B.C. with more smoke. “The good news is there are no fires in the Cranbrook-Kimberley area that would be putting out this amount of smoke. There are only a few fires — there’s a very small fire in Kidd Creek, it’s burning very remotely, in the Kootenay Lake zone.”
See SMOKE, Page 4
Hottest July ever for Earth, but 10th for Cranbrook ARNE PETRYSHEN With files from AP
“That’s what brings us back to this site. “Unfortunately we ran out of money last year, but now we are getting traction again. There is interest in zinc especially.”
U.S. weather officials called July the planet’s warmest month on record, but on Cranbrook’s scale it is only the 10th warmest. Lisa Caldwell, Environment Canada Meteorologist, said the mean temperature, which is all the daily temperatures averaged out for the month, for July 2015 that was 20.2 degrees Celcius. “That makes it the 10th warmest,” Caldwell said. “It was overly, particularly warm.” There were three daily records set over the month. There was a hot period at the beginning of the month — July 3 and 4, with record breaking days, where the temperature was 36 degrees for both days. Then there was a hot spell on July 31 where Cranbrook reached 35.9 degrees Celsius, which again was a record. “There wasn’t an over abundance of rain, but just enough. There was 20.3 mm of rain. That compares to 38.3 of normal, so we’re below normal but not completely dry.”
See SEARCHING, Page 3
See HOT DAYS, Page 3
STEWART WILSON PHOTO
The drawdown at Idlewild Lake continues apace, in preparation for the decommissioning of the dam at the lake’s southern end. What used to be out of sight, out of mind below the surface is now a new basking spot for the lake’s population of painted turtles.
Searching for the new Sullivan Santa Fe Metals announces drill program will resume this fall
C AROLYN GR ANT
Hope springs eternal, especially in the hearts of prospectors and geologists. Scott Broughton, President and CEO of Santa Fe Metals Corp. (SFM) has been on the hunt for another Sullivan Mine type sedi-
mentary exhalative (SEDEX) deposit. His latest venture is drilling on the Sully project about 30 kilometres due east of Kimberley. A drill program commenced on the Sully property in 2014 and was not shut down for lack of findings, but for lack of money.
In early 2014 SFM’s Project Team defined twin parallel vertical masses, the EAST and WEST Targets at the Sully Project. “We proved last year that these masses occurred at exactly the same geological time as the Sullivan Mine deposit,” Broughton said.