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Vol. 70, Issue 123
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Avians in distress: Who you gonna call? Local volunteers, O.W.L. society gives injured birds of prey an new lease on life
FOR THE TOWNSMAN
Early Tuesday morning the Cranbrook RCMP received a complaint of a suspicious vehicle in the Wycliffe area. Police investigates and found the vehicle with two occupants, a man and woman, sleeping inside. Upon further investigation it was determined that the vehicle and a number of items in it were stolen out of Alberta. The items included a number of firearms, one of which was loaded. The man and woman, both from Alberta, were taken into custody without incident and a number of charges are being considered at this time. Police continue to investigate the incident. “Reports of suspicious vehicles can often lead to other investigations such as this,” Cranbrook RCMP said in a press release. “Calls from the public to the police are always appreciated when something out of place is observed in their neighborhood” The RCMP would also like to remind the public to keep their property out of sight and secure from thieves, to always record serial numbers, make, model, color of your belongings and keep those records in a safe place at home. Good record keeping can greatly assist police with retrieving and returning stolen property to the rightful owners.
COURTESY SIOUX BROWNING
Injured birds of prey in the East Kootenay get a new lease on life thanks to the efforts of the Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation (OWL) facility in Delta and local volunteers. Above, left: A juvenile bald eagle whose first flight when badly wrong was recently released into the wild after recovering at the OWL facility. Right: An osprey that hit a power line at the mill at Galloway is currently undergoing treatment at OWL for a damaged wing. BARRY COULTER
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young bald eagle took his first flight out of the nest a few weeks ago and promptly crash-landed in a local lake. Two fishers hauled him into their boat and local OWL
Rehab volunteers Sioux Browning and John Bradshaw sent him to the Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation facility in Delta. OWL fattened him up and gave him some time in the flight cages to get better at
flying. He sent him back to Cranbrook for re-release. Browning said that ordinarily he would be let go right where he was found, but as a newly independent juvenile, his parents would chase him out of their territory as soon
as he was ready. So the young eagle was released on the grassy, treed bench land west of the airport, close to the rivers and giving him a decent view of the world. It has been a perilous
summer for the raptors — also pictured is an osprey that hit a power line at the mill at Galloway and is currently undergoing treatment at OWL for a damaged wing.
See OWL, Page 3
RDEK chips in mosquito control grant TR E VO R C R AWL E Y
The RDEK chipped in $1,500 to the City of Cranbrook for mosquito control on the outlying areas of the
city as part of a discretionary grant program. The mosquito control program usually begins in May of each year, with a
focus on treating mosquitoes at the larval stage and applying Aquabac, a granual larvicide. While the city monitors
standing water in yards, ditches and pools from spring flooding, other areas outside city limits — areas within RDEK jurisdiction —
also needs treatment to keep the mosquito population in check.
See RDEK, Page 3