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In search of school days of yesteryear
Legacy project draws on memories of past East Kootenay students, teachers and parents SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff
ANNALEE GRANT PHOTO
CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD: It was a festive, international Christmas celebrated on Baker St. in Cranbrook on the evening of Friday, November 30. The float entries took this year’s theme – Christmas Around the World – very seriously, with a Merry Christmas being wished in a number of different languages. See later this week for a special photo feature.
Chamber wades into sign bylaw debate Committee looks to local businesses for council feedback
ANNALEE GR ANT Townsman Staff
The Cranbrook and District Chamber of Commerce has formed an ad-hoc committee to look at Cranbrook City Council’s proposed changes to the sign bylaw ahead of a public consultation session Wednesday. The Chamber Sign Bylaw Committee met for the first time on Friday, November 30 after concerns were brought up over
the city’s new draft sign bylaw that came before council for first reading at the November 19 regular meeting. Jason Wheeldon, chair of the Chamber committee, said it’s important that business owners not jump to conclusions with the draft bylaw, because it is merely out for public consultation at this point. “They’re floating it, it’s not set in stone. They’re looking for
public input,” Wheeldon said. The Chamber has however had a number of concerns brought up by its members, and the committee is currently in the process of compiling that information to bring before council as a delegation. Wheeldon said the Chamber has looked through the sign bylaw, and they are trying to get as much feedback from their members as they can.
“We have identified a few areas that we would like to have some further discussions about,” he said. “We want to make sure that we engage our members.” Already the proposed sign bylaw has been a hot button issue in the city, but Wheeldon stresses that nothing has become bylaw yet.
See SIGNS , Page 3
Do you have old class photos lying around? A school pin? A story about getting an education in the East Kootenay? If so, coordinators of a special history project would like to hear from you. Since May, the Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History and School District #5 have been working to collect the history of education in the East Kootenay. Now, the project — dubbed “A Legacy of Learning” — is gearing up, and the Basin Institute’s executive director Derryll White is asking folks to sort through the boxes in their attic, and dredge out the memory banks, to see if you have something to contribute. “Education history is really ephemeral. It just
SALLY MACDONALD PHOTO
Derryll White shows an old Mount Baker Secondary School ring, part of the collection in A Legacy of Learning.
disappears and no one is collecting it,” said White. “It’s a part of history that everyone can share – it’s a common experience, everybody went to school.”
See LEGACY , Page 4
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