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Cooking with Cook at the Key Renowned World Music and Nuevo Flamenco guitarist Jesse Cook enthralled the hundreds who packed the Key City Theatre in Cranbrook Wednesday, Sept. 23. Cook is pictured with drummer Alberto Suarez, violinist Chris Church, guitarist Nicholas Hernandez — not pictured is bassist Dennis Mohammed. Barry Coulter photo
Dental office raising funds for charity trip
Baker Hill Dental partnering with Kindness in Action TREVOR CRAWLEY
In developed countries, basic aspects of life are often taken for granted. Access to quality health care is just one of those aspects — specifically dental care — which is only a phone call away to book an appointment. However, others across the globe, especially in Third World countries, don’t have that same quality of health care available to them. With that in mind, a local dentist and his staff are partnering up with a
non-profit group that provides dental and oral health services in areas where there is a need for it. Dr. Dave Burwash and his staff at Baker Hill Dental are starting a fundraising drive to take a trip —destination undetermined as of press time — to spend roughly two weeks in an under-developed area of the world to provide dental care under the umbrella of Kindness in Action.
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Predators must be managed along with prey, Bennett says C AROLYN GR ANT
In response to the new billboard against the wolf cull, which went up this week on the TransCanada Highway near Golden, (Townsman/Bulletin, September 24, 2015), Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett says the provincial government manages all wildlife species and a full understanding of those management practices is necessary. “You can’t effectively manage wildlife populations by managing prey species, and not predator species,” Bennett said. “We have been managing prey spe-
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The Province is conducting a second wolf cull this year to protect endangered caribou herds.
cies like deer, elk and moose for over 100 years in North America. But when one predator species is allowed to expand without controls, the balance that wildlife management strives for is destroyed.” “Wolves are social animals. More than just numbers,” said Sadie Parr, executive director of Wolf Awareness. “Sustainable numbers do not necessarily mean that a wolf population is thriving nor functioning naturally.
See PREDATORS, Page 4