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Animal Alliance decries Cranbrook deer cull City of Cranbrook declines comment; won’t get into “media debate” with Animal Alliance’s Liz White TRE VOR CR AWLEY
An animal rights organization is accusing the City of Cranbrook of undergoing an urban deer cull in advance of a regional translocation trial that is about to get underway. Date-stamped video footage and photographs have been posted on a website—www.bcdeer.org—and Liz White, a board member of the Animal Alliance of Canada, says that she hasn’t been able to find any evidence of a council vote to approve or fund a cull. The cull is preceding an anticipated study into the potential of translocation as a solution for urban deer. See CULL, page 4 PHOTO SUBMITTED
Congratulations to the Kimberley Atom Nitros who went undefeated in Lethbridge to take top spot in the Lethbridge Atom Tournament.
Flume finish by end of January C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
Phase II of the Mark Creek Flume Rehab continues to vex Council as the project remains about eight weeks behind schedule. Coun. Kent Goodwin put out the question as to when it might be done Monday evening. “It’s not moving very fast,” he said. City CAO Scott Sommerville said that the last schedule he had seen put demobilization in the last week of January. Coun. Albert Hoglund also commented on
a section where the concrete is very high. “It looks awful,” he said. Mayor Don McCormick said that the concrete was high in order to meet the 200 year flood level. “There are rocks that still need to be placed in that area,” he said. “But it is a thorn among the roses.” McCormick admits he will be very glad when the project is done. “From the beginning the big issue on the flume was the scope of the project,” he said. “It was minimized. The first expectation that
it would cost $4.25 million didn’t have a lot of detail. It became clear the project was bigger than implied. The plans in place were not detailed.” The problem is, McCormick says, that decisions made in Phase I affect Phase II. “There are things we would change if we could, but we can’t.” As for the dispute over who will pay for the cost overruns —the City or the contractor — because the project is behind schedule — that is heading to court.
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4th quarter Policing Report C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
Cpl. Chris Newel of the Kimberley RCMP visited Kimberley City Council this week to deliver the Fourth Quarter Policing Report. Newel reported that the detachment was called to investigate/attend 445 calls for service in this quarter which is 203 (-30 %) less calls than the previous quarter and 28 less calls (-6%) from the same quarter in 2014. The spring and summer quarters are always higher than fall and winter, he said. See REPORT, page 5
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