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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014
VOL 117 NO. 2
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City Hall renos drafted in new plans
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Both her husband and father are RCMP officers, which plays into this story later on. After the visit Miranda told James, “You have to do something. This poor little bear cub is just sitting in the chicken coop with the chickens running around it, not hurting them, not killing them or anything.” When her husband called the Conservation Service he was told their options were limited. “The officer whom he spoke to just said destroying it was most likely the best,” Miranda told the Times in an interview a week later. But she wouldn’t take that as the answer without looking for other options. She told her husband to give her a day to make some phone calls and see what she could do. She found out the Northern Lights Wildlife Society in Smithers in northern B.C. had room for the cub.
With a new set of floor plans set to go, the rebuilt Grand Forks City Hall looks like it could be completed by late spring. After a fire caused extensive damage to the venerable building, the city has had to move services into different locations throughout the area while City Hall is rebuilt. “These floor plans are really an improvement over what we had before in terms of the utility of the building,” said Mayor Brian Taylor. “I’m talking primarily of the bottom (main) floor which was where the majority of the damage was.” The city will be taking the opportunity to upgrade a number of things in the building, he added. Taylor said the plans for the inside of the building are creative, but won’t affect the historical veneer of the outside at all. “Everything is on schedule in our planning,” he said. “What we’re doing is looking at finalizing our floor plans and budgeting for the renovations to start in the spring.”
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Kootenay classic musher Al Magaw will be bringing his sled dogs from Salmo to compete with mushers from all over Western Canada and the U.S. in the Boundary Dog Sled Classics sprint races in Grand Forks from Jan. 25-26. See story on Page 16.
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Yuletide tale of Tinsel’s rescue has happy ending
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Eleven-monthold Tinsel before her transport north to Smithers. Miranda Charles photo
An orphaned bear cub has put the Boundary on the map. Since Christmas the story of the rescue of 11-month-old Tinsel has gone around the world. Tinsel was found taking shelter in Dale Tiiffenbach’s chicken coop beside Boundary Creek, halfway between Midway and Greenwood the week before Christmas. During church on Dec. 22 Tiffenbach told others about the starving cub. He’d contacted both the BC Conservation Service and the RCMP, but as to what to do about the bear cub was up in the air. One option considered was putting the bear down. But Midway resident Miranda Charles, who attends the same church, didn’t like that idea. So, with Tiffenbach’s permission, she, her husband James and her father Daryll Davies (conveniently visiting from Cape Breton) went to see the cub.
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