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Vol. 70, Issue 158
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People go public with road care concerns Mainroad hosts open house ahead of winter TREVOR CRAWLEY
People concerned with the winter and summer maintenance of local highways got the chance to make their voices heard on Tuesday during an open house organized by Mainroad East Kootenay Contracting. The seating gallery was full at the Prestige Rocky Mountain Resort, as Mainroad staff outlined their forecasted operations during the winter and discussed a new contract that was signed with the provincial government last April.
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Cranbrook’s Tristen Chernove (far right), along with fellow Canadian Olympic and Paralympic athletes, were celebrated in Ottawa by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday. Over 250 athletes and coaches attended events in the nation’s capital, which included a stop at the House of Commons, where they were honoured for their sporting achievements. Chernove, who competed on Canada’s para-cycling team, captured a gold, silver and bronze medal at the Rio Games in September.
AAP $10 million proposal approved TRE VOR CR AWLEY
The Alternative Approval Process for a proposed $10 million loan has been approved by Cranbrook voters and will move forward, confirmed the city on Wednesday. The deadline for elector response forms passed on
Oct. 31 and while results haven’t been made official, the measure had 95 per cent approval from voters. The final tally of elector response forms will be made public at an upcoming city council meeting on Nov. 7 at city hall. “I’m very pleased with
the results, that shows 95 per cent of electors endorsed the borrowing proposal,” said Cranbrook Mayor Lee Pratt. “The decision at election time was they wanted the roads fixed, so they’re standing by that and we are, too.” With the money now
confirmed, the city will be moving forward with a plan to do a full reconstruction of 2nd St. South from Highway 3/95 through to 10th Ave. South with repaving from 10th Ave. South through to 14th Ave. South. “It’s pretty much finalized now that we have the
funding,” Pratt said. “It had to be done, no matter what, so now that we have that funding in place, we know that we can do that this year, plus we can continue to do other road work that needs attention.”
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Fall back C AROLYN GR ANT
Although it seems the debate over the necessity of twice-a-year time changes gets a little louder every year, it is nonetheless time to move your clocks back one hour this Sunday at 2 a.m. It isn’t uniform across Canada. There are municipalities (Creston) and provinces (Saskatchewan) that just ignore the time change, but for the rest of us, it’s time to fall back. It is also, as Kimberley Fire Chief Al Collinson reminds us, time to make sure the batteries in your smoke detector are replaced and that it’s functioning properly. “Working smoke alarms cut the risk of dying in a home fire in half,” Collinson said.
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