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Summing up SunMine Hard to gauge full results on only four months operation C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
The City of Kimberley/Tourism Kimberley have a new sign out at the Wasa junction.
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New Kimberley signs get the message across C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
The new city sign at the Wasa junction is certainly hard to miss. It’s large, it’s red and it has a simple message: An arrow points in the direction of Kimberley on 95A — good times. An arrow directs you east and south on Highway 95 — everything else. The sign is directed specifically to tourists, says Mayor Don McCormick. “We want to provide a message to tourists, it’s an effort to get them to check Kimberley out. The fact is that people these days travel point to point. They are using GPS, and GPS tells you to bypass Kimberley because its not on the major highway. We need to give them a reason to go to
City CAO Scott Sommerville has provided Council with a bit of a post-mortem on the SunMine construction, and the first four months of operation. Sommerville reported that the budget to construct SunMine was $5,350,000, including a contingency of $97,398 or 1.8 per cent. The final cost of construction estimates are $5,621,189; 5.1 per cent or $271,189 over budget. He explains that the primary reasons for the cost overrun were: • Issues with interconnection to the BCHydro grid related to unclear technical language in the construction contract • BCHydro’s require-
ment for a revised interconnection study when the project was downsized from 2 MW to 1 MW • Road upgrade with asphalt grindings ($59,922) to improve road conditions for tours and to minimize future operational costs related to dust control and panel washing. He also said that one of the things learned from the construction phase was that a 1.8 per cent contingency is not enough on a project of this complexity. A consulting engineer was brought on late in the project and Sommerville believes if he had been brought in earlier, costly oversights in the contract related to interconnection could have been avoided. The project also had less than expected revenue in 2015, mainly because it didn’t begin operation until June. See SUNMINE, p. 3
Arrest made in Laurie Middle School fire 14-year old youth charged with arson FOR THE BULLETIN
There are four different signs for the four area billboards. Kimberley.” The message ‘good times’ is nebulous as well, McCormick says, not pointing out any specific activities. “Good times is a
catch phrase for Gen X and Gen Y. This is designed to drive visitors to Kimberley. We need a simple message. The message is good, it doesn’t dis Cranbrook.
There’s lots of good in ‘everything else’. “We had requested having new directional signage put at Wasa almost a year ago and we still don’t have that up.
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We are still dealing with Highways. We just wanted a sign saying you could still access Cranbrook through Kimberley.” See SIGNS, p. 5
On November 11th 2015 Cranbrook RCMP and the Cranbrook Fire Department jointly began an investigation into a fire which started on the roof at Laurie Middle School. On November 18th, 2015, after an exhaustive investigation, Cran-
brook RCMP took a 14 year old youth male into custody for arson. The youth male has since been released and is on a curfew. The youth male is next to appear in court on December 7, 2015. Cranbrook RCMP would like to thank the Fire Department, school staff and students of Laurie Middle School for their assistance during this investigation.