MONDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2016
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New ICU unveiled
$20 million project finished TRE VOR CR AWLEY
Politicians, community volunteers and public servants celebrated the official unveiling of the new Intensive Care Unit at the East Kootenay Regional Hospital with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday afternoon. The ICU, a $20 million project that broke ground in May 2014, finished ahead of schedule and under budget and will be fully operational by April. In addition to the ICU expansion, which includes six beds, the project also included an electrical system upgrade for the entire EKRH facility. See ICU, page 4
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Subway Seventh Player Parker Johnson stands with the Kimberley Dynamiters for the anthem at a recent regular season game. The playoffs start tomorrow, Tuesday, February 23, at the Civic Centre, 7 p.m. against Fernie. The Dynamiters will play again at home on Friday evening, February 26. Go Nitros Go!
Another timber frame bridge to be installed C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
Local company Tyee Log Homes will build and install a fourth timber frame bridge over Mark Creek this year. The City has received CBT funding of $112,000 for enhancements to the Mark Creek Restoration Project. $67,000 of those funds will go to the construction and installation of the bridge. City CAO Scott Sommerville says the bridge will replace the current orange metal pedestrian bridge over the creek. “The idea is to provide a more obvious entrance to the Peaks to Platzl trail,” he said.
Tyee constructed the other three bridges, already installed at Marysville, behind the curling rink and in the first phase of the flume rehab on St. Mary’s Avenue. Tyee has held the price to the same as the previous bridges. There will also be interpretive signage in two timber frame kiosks that will explain the history of the creek in the community, its containment in a concrete flume and treatment under a mining-centric town, and its rehabilitation as a habitat for Westslope Cutthroat Trout. The City will work together with Wildsight on the vegetation and education components.
Stabbing in Cranbrook Domestic dispute FOR THE BULLETIN
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Another wooden bridge will replace the orange metal bridge over the flume. Above is the St. Mary Avenue bridge with its landscaping complete.
A Cranbrook resident is in custody after stabbing her partner in the thigh in the early morning hours of February 20th, 2016. In response to a report of a domestic altercation at a local apartment building, Cranbrook RCMP found a male in obvious distress with a serious thigh wound. The officers were quick to initiate emergency first aid to the male and were able to stabilize him until BC Ambulance arrived. The victim was then transported to East Kootenay Regional Hospital by BC Ambulance where priority emergency room treatment improved his condition further. He underwent surgery is expected to make a full recovery. Police arrested a female at the scene and are holding her in custody to take before the courts. This was a targeted attack in a domestic relationship with no risk to the public.
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