Cranbrook Daily Townsman, May 31, 2016

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TUESDAY

Michelle Rybachuk

MAY 31, 2016

Time for ‘Walk A Mile’: Page 3

Townsman Cranbrook

Vol. 70, Issue 92

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The second annual Kootenay Kids Fondo, held Sunday, May 29, saw participation more than double from last year. The event, put on by the Sunrise Rotary Club and the East Kootenay Credit Union, featured three course routes of 8 km, 16.6 km and 20.2 km. The many parents who turned out to ride with their kids made this a unique new family friendly event for the region. See more, Page 20.

Idylls of Idlewild

Future of park coming clearer

BARRY COULTER

TRE VOR CR AWLEY

Idlewild Park has been undergoing some changes — not by choice — as the city has been managing the situation around the structural issues of the dam. City staff is tendering the rehabilitation of the dam and spillway by July, with work to start in August. Currently, Idlewild Lake has been drawn down to relieve pressure on the dam, however, once construction is complete, the lake will be restored to it’s former level.

See IDLEWILD, Page 4

Family marks sixth anniversary of MacFarlane-Taylor murders

STEWART WILSON PHOTO

The City of Cranbrook is in the process of relocating Idlewild Lake’s population of Western Painted Turtles.

It has been six years since Leanne MacFarlane and Jeffrey Taylor were killed in a house just outside Cranbrook, in what police said was a case of mistaken identity. MacFarlane, 43, and Taylor, 42, had been living in the house beside the Highway 3/93 rest stop in Rampart, near Mayook, for three months on May 29, 2010. That morning, the couple were shot in their home. MacFarlane died at the scene; Taylor died of his injuries later that day. Police quickly determined it was a case of mistaken identity. Though no arrests have ever been made, it is still very much an active case. “The investigation is still ongoing, and still at the forefront,” said Cpl. Jason Smart with the

Jeffrey Taylor and Leanne MacFarlane Southeast District Major Crimes Unit. “These unsolved investigations never stop. Any time there’s a tip we investigate it.”

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Meanwhile, the family is still waiting waiting for justice, and remembering.

See SIXTH, Page 3


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