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Mechanical issues bring flight back to airport
ARNE PETRYSHEN
Emergency crews were on hand as an Air Canada Jazz flight returned to Canadian Rockies International Airport late Tuesday night due to a potential mechanical issue. Tristen Chernove, airport manager at Ca-
nadian Rockies International Airport, said the flight returned to the terminal because of an issue with a propeller. The plane had been in flight for approximately 30 minutes when it turned back to the airport. Emergency crews were waiting as a pre-
caution when the flight landed, he said. “Everything rolled out according to the Emergency Response Plan, which I’m really happy about,” he said. “Flight services followed their procedure, did their call out to police/fire/ambulance and myself.”
Chernove was called in around 11:30 p.m. “Everything went very well from the response side,” he said. “And the aircraft landed without incident.” Chernove said events like this are fairly rare. “The industry has
so many safety measures in place that, when something isn’t exactly the way people (crews) want to see it, we see flights make alternate arrangements when necessary,” he said. Chernove said the flight was then delayed until Wednesday
morning. The airport recently conducted its annual Emergency Response Tabletop Exercise. Every year the airport conducts the tabletop exercise, with a full scale emergency exercise every few years. “This was a good opportunity to test the
emergency response plan,” he said. “It was great to see all the emergency response agencies respond and have a bit of a training opportunity without any negative incidents, and we’re glad to see Air Canada following their procedures to be safe.”
Community Foundation marks Giving Tuesday $18,000 donated to community organizations C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
The Kimberley and District Community Foundation held its annual wine and cheese reception on Tuesday, December 1 at Centre 64. It was appropriately Giving Tuesday, as the Foundation handed out $18,000 in grants to community organizations. The grants went to all sorts of projects, from a boardwalk to protect delicate terrain around Eimer’s Lake to new windows for the heritage schoolhouse in Marysville to the Rotary Splash Park to promoting Big Brothers Big Sisters in Kimberley. Since its inception in 2001, the Kimberley and District Community Foundation has grown its endowment to almost $600,000 and $205,000 has been distributed in
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the community. The Foundation does not spend the endowment but donates the interest each year. In that way the funds can grow and be sustainable. Foundation president Terry Oscarson also acknowledged the major support the Foundation receives from Kootenay Savings Credit Union, which gave them the seed money for the Community Fund and continues to support it each year with $6,000 in flow-through funding. In 2015, the Kimberley and District Community Foundation handed out $4000 in Winter Games Legacy Funding to various sports organization in Kimberley, as well as the $15,000 from the Theresa Cundiff Fund and the KSCU Community Fund and $2909 from the Bill Motek Memorial Fund to the Pines Memorial CAROLYN GRANT PHOTO Society to improve life for residents of the Retired teacher Jessie Jensen was pleased to accept $4800 for the Kimberley Heritage Society from the Kimberley and District Community Foundation’s Terry Oscarson to assist in a project to warm up the heritage school at Marysville so it can be used Special Care Home.
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