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MAY 20, 2016
Former Ice Luke Philp on Memorial Cup week
Justin Trudeau’s elbows fierce a-flyin’
Community Theatre unveils new season Page 3
Janus: The Cranbrook Auditorium: Part II
Project Heavy Duty Page 10
Stages School of Dance
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COMING SOON TO A BACK ALLEY NEAR YOU: The Back Alley Arts Festival, organized by youth ages 15-25, is all set to go Saturday, May 28, from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the space off the alley behind the Cranbrook and District Arts Council. See more, Page 3. Pictured: Artists prepping the stage and surrounding environs (left to right): Kaitlynn Campbell, Jessica Van Rhijn, Paul Miller, Hope Antonio, Aia Khen.
City eyes August I hear those goats a-comin’ for replacement of Idlewild dam
350 quadrupeds return to Cranbrook area to continue battle with invasive weeds BARRY COULTER
saster downstream of Joseph Creek. The Dam Breach Inundation Study said the most critical mode of failure of the dam was identified as overtopping, which raises the water level over the dam crest, increasing the volume of water stored behind the dam if a breach occurred.
The Idlewild dam rehabilitation project is on pace for construction in August. City staff look to have a finalized plan in order to tender out a contract by July. The Idlewild dam was decommissioned last spring after City Council received a report warning of the potential for a dam breach, which could cause a flooding di-
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The City of Cranbrook is building a septic line to connect to the western Visitors Centre beside Elizabeth Lake to the municipal system. In digging a trench for the pipes, there is also the opportunity for archaeological discoveries, as Tipi Mountain Eco-Cultural Services is sifting through the material that’s being dug up, looking for cultural artifacts present before First Nations contact with Europeans, such as stone tools and projectile points. Pictured above: Lara McFadden, Joshua Martin and Grant Patrick sift through material that’s being extracted from a trench line out towards Elizabeth Lake.
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For a second year in a row, a most effective weapon is being deployed in the ongoing battle against invasive plants. The goats of Rocky Ridge Vegetation Control out in Kamloops are returning to the Cranbrook-Kimberley area, in particular designated Aq’am (St. Mary’s Band) lands to help restore grasslands by grazing on invasive sulphur
cinquefoil and knapweed. Conrad and Donna Lindblom, who run Rocky Ridge and its herd of goats, are just finishing up a pilot project with the City of Chilliwack, in which 30 goats were loosed to chow down on Japanese Knotweed, a hideously invasive plant that’s almost impossible to get rid of once it takes hold.
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