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By CAROLYN GRANT
The City of Kimberley is still looking for partners to invest in the SunMine. It is not looking to sell the solar project, says Mayor Don McCormick. “The original plan was for us to sell our interest to generate cash for infrastructure,” he said. “The thought was the SunMine would still be there, there would just be a change in ownership.” However, a few key factors have come to light that make a sale virtually impossible. “The first factor is that we have a loan from the MFA (Municipal Finance Au-
The City of Kimberley is looking for partners to expand the SunMIne. thority) and it is debenture based, which means the money was raised through the bond market. There is only one opportunity to pay off the loan and that’s at the ten year mark. So any
money we got from a sale could only go into a reserve fund and make payments on the loan until the ten year mark. So there is no benefit to a sale.” Continued on A3
Man fined for tossing smoke out car window BARRY COULTER Townsman Staff
Cranbrook RCMP issued a fine under the Wildfire Act Tuesday to a man who tossed a lit cigarette out of his moving vehicle. Police responded to a complaint of a man driving on 14th Avenue in Cranbrook, who apparently tossed a cigarette out of the window of his moving vehicle into dry grass. Witnesses were able to provide a license plate number for an out of province Cadillac. The Cranbrook officer was able to
locate the vehicle and issued the driver with a ticket under the Wildfire Act for “Drop Release or Mishandle Burning Substance” which carries a fine of $575. “Cranbrook RCMP would like to stress to the motoring public that with the dry conditions in and around Cranbrook, it might only take that one cigarette being tossed out a window to cause a devastating and life altering wildfire in our area,” police said in a release issued Tuesday afternoon.
See the Kasandra Flamenco ensemble featuring Kasandra ‘La China’ Lea at Kimberley’s Kaleidoscope festival. See more page 2. (Sanka Dea file)
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