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Dollars for the rainy days Cranbrook City Council keeps on with contingency funding ARNE PETRYSHEN
Cranbrook city council stayed the course on how contingency funding is doled out. At a number of previous meetings, mayor and council had debated how the city body should apportion the funding. Council decided to continue to endorse the principal which the council of 2011 adopted after its review of the contingency fund. The guiding principal of it was: Council contingency is a modest fund established to enable council, at its discretion and in open public meeting, to allocate financial support to initiatives of municipal interest that cannot be reasonably anticipated during the normal budgeting process. Coun. Ron Popoff said council had discussed the alternative recommendation, which were listed in bullet points. “I think the general thought was we would have these bullet points in our minds as something will come to us for consideration,” Popoff said.
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The Wild Days of September
The studentry at Mount Baker Secondary School officially ended the summer and launched the fall with the annual Wild Day festival of strength, will power and teamwork. Events like the Tug O’ War (pictured, with Team Red giving their all, the Bus Pull, the Super Slide, etc, kicked off the academic year in non-academic fashion. See more at www.dailytownsman.com. Barry Coulter photo
What a fabulous Fondo it was Organizers mark another successful edition of an ongoing Kootenay classic
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It was another successful weekend out on the Kootenay Rockies Gran Fondo courses as riders broke out the bicycles and hit the local roads, highways and trails. With over 360 riders from Cranbrook, Kimberley and beyond, such as Alberta and the northwestern U.S., cyclists took on three courses differing in length on Saturday morning, starting and
finishing at the St. Eugene Golf Resort and Casino. The event featured three courses—Piccolo (58 km), Medio (102 km) and Gran (152 km), along with a kids fondo on Sunday with some shorter, more manageable distances. “I think the reception from the cyclists, similar from the past, was deeper or richer, certainly from those cyclists who traveled from
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Seattle, Victoria, Calgary who were very appreciative of the warm welcome from volunteers and the St. Eugene resort,” said Glenn Dobie, the chairperson of the event. “The day went as well as the picture-perfect weather. Everything matched the blue sky, sunshine, 25-degrees and I think that was just the backdrop to everything that went just as well.”
Though the Gran Fondo is marketed as a ride, not a race, the fastest completion time for the longest course came in at 3h:55m. “That’s an extraordinary feat of athleticism,” Dobie noted. In addition to the Gran Fondo event itself, there was also a Ride the Runway event the night before out at the Canadian Rockies International Airport. Thought it
was a smaller event, cyclists were pleased with riding the two-kilometre loops on the runway, with prizes donated by Hot Shots Cafe and Pacific Coastal Airlines. After the Gran Fondo, roughly 30 young ones got into the Kids Fondo, which was a big hit for the children and parents alike, said Dobie.
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Just a few BOOTHS LEFT- $150.00 same price for 5 years. We still have some booths left inside and outside – will sell right till the end!! High attendance numbers, fun for the whole family!
Call Bev MARYSVILLE ARENA 250-427-7876 or email Saturday Sept. 26, 10:00 - 5:30 tom.tan@telus.net Sunday Sept. 27, 11:00 - 4:00