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It’s Duck Race time again. Tickets for the July 1 rubber duck race are already on sale and the event was officially launched Wednesday with the usual photo op in front of the office of the main sponsor, Royal LePage East Kootenay Realty. Above are Marc Poirier, Meadowbrook Greenhouses, Cath Oscarson, Kimberley Food Bank, Kristen Daprocida, EK Realty, Tracy Prather, barbecue organizer, Marilyn Jolie, EK Realtor and race organizer, Audrey Welk, realtor, Tony Harris, duck collector, Alicia Sweet Ek Realty, Tara Sykes, Realtor, Peter Monroe, property manager, George Turcon, Food Bank and Stan Salikin, Food Bank. Missing are Ruth Kaufmann, Kimberley Meats and Sausage, Kimberley Golf Course, Bootleg Gap Golf Course, Kieren Hickey, Kimberley Lodging Company, Michelle, Old Bauernhaus, and Trickle Creek Golf Resort. First prize for this year’s Duck Race is $2500 cash, furnished by Audrey Welk and Marilyn Jolie; second prize, 2 nights accommodation in a three bedroom condo compliments of Kimberley Lodging Company ($700 value), The Feast for 4 from the Old Bauernhaus and four rounds of golf with two carts compliments of Trickle Creek Golf Course. Third prize is $250 from Meadowbrook Greenhouse and fourth prize is 2 rounds of golf at both Bootleg Gap and Kimberley Golf Course. Watch for ticket sales at local businesses.
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With the renewal of the Resort Municipality Initiative looming next year, the 14 resort communities in B.C., of which Kimberley is one, continue to wrestle with what form the renewal is going to take. Kimberley Mayor Don McCormick has been leading the charge on the RMI funding, trying to find a more equitable formula, where small communities like Kimberley and Rossland, for example, can get a bigger piece of the pie. The amount the province pays out in RMI funding is fixed at $10.5 million but McCormick is arguing
spend the funds in a different way. Kimberley needs capital funds so communities’ needs differ. How do we meet these disparate needs?” One of the things the resort communities have agreed to do is hire a tourism consultant, who will collect data. “The consultant will look at how other countries raise their funds for tourism marketing and capital. We hope to get some good intel from the consultant,” McCormick said. “All 14 municipalities are paying for the consultant, with Whistler paying the lion’s share. They have been very supportive of this whole process, keeping the best interest of all the communities in mind.”
for a change in how it is allocated to resort municipalities and also some more flexibility on how it can be spent. As it stands now, the funding — which for KImberley amounts to somewhere in the neighbourhood of $80,000 to $90,000 per year — must be used for tourism infrastructure. Kimberley has in the past used the funds to help build the putting course at Riverside Campground and more recently on trail infrastructure. “If you look at communities like Whistler and Tofino, their infrastructure is mature, they are built out,” McCormick said. “It would be nice if they had some flexibility to
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Chynoweth family becomes lone shareholder of Kootenay Ice TAYLOR ROCC A Sports Editor
The Chynoweth family has become the lone shareholder of the Western Hockey League’s Kootenay Ice. The family, which previously owned 75.5 per cent of the franchise, has purchased the remaining 24.5 per cent of the club from Rob and Scott Niedermayer, as announced via press release Wednesday morning. “Now that we own 100 per cent we move forward, nothing changes, it’s
no different than in the past,” Jeff Chynoweth, president and general manager of the Kootenay Ice, told The Townsman Wednesday morning. “We move forward from there. “It’s a business transaction that I felt, in talking to the league, I had to get it out from my perspective… Now people know the Niedermayers don’t own our hockey club.” Out of respect for the Niedermayer family and his own, Chynoweth declined to comment further on the nature of the transaction. See ICE, page 4