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City shuts off irrigation to most parks, green spaces Public Works changes in line with new Cranbrook watering restrictions FOR THE TOWNSMAN
Public Works in the City of Cranbrook has shut off the majority of the City owned irriga-
tion systems in order to fall in line with the new watering restrictions brought into effect last week. A number of
parks will continue to be irrigated because they are heavily used sports fields or new planted grass or planted areas.
The spaces that will continue to be irrigated include: • 9th Ave Connector • Rotary Park
• Rotary Train Station • Clock Tower Square • Lions Soccer Field • Moir Park • Quad Ball Park • Fire Hall • Confederation Park
• Western Financial Pl. Although these areas will continue to be irrigated for the foreseeable future, the water consumption at these locations will be reduced by 10 percent. If additional watering restrictions are
needed and the irrigation at these parks needs to be shut down, these playfields may have to be closed to public use to prevent costly damage to those areas.
See CITY, Page 4
Search ongoing for missing man ARNE PETRYSHEN
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Cranbrook’s global character was on display at the second annual Multicultural Festival, held Saturday, August 22, in Rotary Park. Pictured above: Members of Cranbrook’s South African community. See Page 3 for special photo feature. Left to right: Marina Simons, Kerry Ries, Madaleine Oosthuizen, Thomas Oosthuizen and Alexander Oosthuizen.
Cranbrook’s international cultural showcase T R E VO R C R AW L E Y
There was a visible international flavour to Cranbrook this past weekend as over 18 different nations and cultures were represented in the Multicultural Festival at Rotary Park. The festival, in it’s second edition, grew from the inaugural event a year ago with roughly six additional cultures, as booths and vendors lined the park to showcase their unique traditions, heritage and culinary delicacies. Cultural booths, performances and ethnic food made up the three elements to the
multicultural festival, according to Coco Seitz, the president of the Cranbrook Multi-Cultural Society. “A big shout out to all the cultural groups and also individuals who participated in the cultural displays because it takes a long time and effort to put together the cultural displays,” said Seitz. Seitz added that the cultural dance performances and the construction of each booth were done by volunteers. “The performances were amazing because we got a [Ktunaxa] drum group from
Creston to travel here,” said Seitz. “I invited a Chinese lady who traveled here from Vancouver and did a Chinese folk dance,” she said. “We had the Huncar Warriors Academy perform the martial arts, that was quite interesting. We also had two girls from the Indian community perform an Indian dance.” Cultures included: Canadian; Japanese, Indian; German; Ktunaxa; Korean; Italian; Irish; Metis; Croatian; French Canadian; Chinese; Thai; Filipino and South African. International students from the College of the Rock-
ies were also on hand as part of the event. Roughly 3,000 people turned out to the event, which was MC’d by Bruce Seitz and was supported through grant funding by the Columbia Basin Trust. Cranbrook Multi-cultural Society is a not-for-profit society that promotes multi-cultural awareness and mutual respect through celebrating our diversity in the community. The Society board includes Seitz, Crystal Green, and directors Wayne Stetski, Anna Scavo and Albert Servando.
Cranbrook RCMP continue the search for the 74-year-old Cranbrook man missing since Thursday morning. Acting Sgt. Scott Milliken said police are continuing to look for leads on the disappearance of Gordon Rice. Milliken said they are looking at things like credit cards to see if there have been any recent purchases or activity since he went missing. “We had search and rescue, over the weekend, fly over the area here and they found nothing,” he said, adding there has been nothing to indicate the disappearance looks suspicious — in the way of an abduction. Rice was last seen
GORDON RICE
driving his pewter coloured 2009 GMC extended cab pickup truck with a B.C. licence plate of FJ1295. The information has been circulated to Southern Alberta and Southeastern B.C. Milliken said if members of the public see anything that may have a connection to this case, call Crimestoppers immediately at 1-800222-8477.
City approves Canadian Tire’s new location ARNE PETRYSHEN
Canadian Tire is moving ahead with its plans to move into space formerly occupied by Target. At city council Aug. 17, city staff recommended the approval of an application and draft Highway Corridor Commercial Development Permit which would en-
able Canadian Tire to re-develop of the property. Mayor Lee Pratt added that the application is for Canadian Tire to do renovations and remodelling to prepare to move its store from the current location to that building.
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