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Volume 67, No. 6 | Thursday, February 5, 2015
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Literacy Week at the Creston Valley Public Library on Saturday. Events at Full STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) Ahead included the history of refrigeration by the Creston Museum, Ktunaxa legends told by Lower Kootenay Band Chief Jason Louie, and stories read by Footlighters Theatre Society members Natascha Sundby as Alice from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Sam Mintenko as Cinderella and Gail Kitt as her Fairy Godmother.
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Blackmore, Oler trial election pushed back BY BRIAN LAWRENCE Advance Editor
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The decision for four members of the Bountiful polygamist community to be tried by judge or jury was put off in Creston Law Courts last week by Judge Ron Webb. Winston Blackmore, James Oler, Brandon Blackmore and Emily (Crossfield) Blackmore were to elect their choice of trial Jan. 29, having previously appeared in court Dec. 9
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for the same purpose. “We’re making good progress in advising Mr. Blackmore as to his options,” said Winston’s lawyer by phone. Winston, who did not appear, and Oler lead separate factions in Bountiful, and were charged in August with polygamy, the indictment alleging Blackmore has 24 wives and Oler four. SEE CHARGES, PAGE 4
BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff
Creston town council gave fire Chief Mike Moore the go-ahead to shop for a ladder truck at the Jan. 27 regular council meeting. With an agreement to provide fire protection services to West Creston on the horizon, Creston Fire Rescue has reassessed its fleet, identifying what Moore has described as “an opportunity” to add a ladder truck (or quintuple aerial apparatus — pump, water tank, fire hose, aerial device and ground ladders) to the mix. When the contract is in place and a building is constructed, Creston Fire Rescue will have to keep a fire engine in place in West Creston. Moore proposes to move one of its two fire engines
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to the new fire hall, and to replace it with a unit that provides more and better firefighting options. Council approved an expenditure not to exceed $280,000, which will be funded from a fire department capital reserve fund, the town’s general reserves, proceeds from the reduction to one rescue truck from the current two and Regional District of Central Kootenay Area C payment for contract firefighting services. The plan is all part of Moore’s stated goal of improving the municipality’s Public Fire Protection Classification from its present low level of eight to five, which would likely result in insurance savings for town residents.
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