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Students of the COTR Fire Training Certificate Program hosted by the Kimberley Fire Department received their diplomas last week.
Two Kimberley athletes training at the Callaghan Valley are seeing success. See LOCAL NEWS page 3
MonDAY March 4, 2013
See LOCAL NEWS page 5
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City sets priorities in strategic plan C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
Kimberley City Council received the newly finished Corporate Strategic Plan last week, a document begun shortly after the new Council was elected in 2011. “All of Council has been involved in the development of this plan,” said Mayor Ron McRae. “It represents a watershed in terms of corporate planning for our City.” The plan developed from Council wanting a more informed environment from which to operate, McRae said. “We’re happy to be involved in this,” said Troy Pollock, speaking for the City’s Planning Department. “We see value in it. It will make sure our processes and decisions are in line with Council’s priorities.” The purpose of the plan is to provide direction and set strategic priorities for the City’s limited resources. First and foremost, the City is committed to becoming a sustainable community, meaning a community with a robust economy and serving a strong, equitable society, with a highly functioning natural environment. The plan identifies strategic goals and priorities in three basic categories that encompass everything the City does.
See PLAN , Page 3
Sally MacDonald photo
HOUSE IS A-ROCKIN’, DON’T BOTHER KNOCKIN’: Western Financial Place was thumping loud and bursting at the seams on Saturday, March 2 for Pink the Rink. More than 4,000 - almost a sold out crowd - filled the rink during the Kootenay Ice vs Medicine Hat game. Students from local elementary schools came to the game wearing pink, carrying banners, costumes and clappers handed out by Western Financial. The event was an initiative of Pink Shirt Day, which promotes acceptance of all and stands up against bullying. A special flash mob surprised unsuspecting attendees halfway through the first period as thousands of students suddenly stood up and danced to Selena Gomez’s hit song Who Says. See the Townsman/Bulletin Tuesday for a photo feature of the event.
Cranbrook cull
Cull decision should have been public: councillor Gerry Warner regrets debating Cranbrook’s second urban deer cull behind closed doors Sally MacDonald Townsman Staff
A Cranbrook city councillor is speaking
out against the process council underwent in approving the urban deer cull this February, saying that council’s secrecy “stirred up the proverbial hornets’ nest”. Councillor Gerry Warner, a former Townsman reporter, apologized to the public for participating in closed council meetings where decisions about the recently completed second cull were made. “Whatever we decide, it must be decided in public,” said Coun. Warner. “So far we have hidden from the public eye and, like
shadowy apparatchiks of some Third World regime, we’ve cowered behind closed doors and taken a bad situation and torqued it up into something infinitely worse. I have been partly responsible for this and for that I here and now unequivocally apologize to each and every citizen of Cranbrook for my role in this toxic mess.” Warner said that council agreed to hold its discussions in a private meeting because of alleged vandalism and public safety incidents that occurred last year in Invermere
while the district was carrying out its cull. “There is some merit in this argument, but I have since come to the conclusion that whether the argument is meritorious or not, vandalism and public safety is an RCMP issue, not a council issue, and it shouldn’t have swayed our judgement in taking the public’s business behind closed doors. Once we retreated into our locked chamber, we lost control of the issue and the rest is history,” said Coun. Warner.
See WARNER, Page 4
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