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Volume 67, No. 23 | Thursday, June 4, 2015
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AT ATTENTION — Creston’s Royal Canadian Army Cadets Corps Squadron 1746 held its 59th annual ceremonial review at the Lower Kootenay
Band complex on Saturday. The reviewing officer was Gin Bergman a former cadet (in blue), who was led by Chief Warrant Officer Michael Niemi. The event also included demonstrations by the pipe and drum band, displays highlighting the cadets’ training and achievements, and award presentations to the most proficient cadets.
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Former Columbia Basin Trust CEO Don Johnston has been acclaimed as the Liberal Party of Canada candidate for the Kootenay-Columbia riding in the fall federal election. Johnston was handed the nomination when he was unopposed at the May 27 constituency meeting in Nelson’s Hume Hotel. SEE LIBERALS, PAGE 3
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The long-vacant Kootenay Hotel, which operated most recently as the Bigfoot Pub and Grill, is about to be resurrected. Building contractor Ralph Casemore purchased the building and adjacent parking lot from the Calgary owner last month and is now developing plans to create a multi-use property on Canyon Street. “This is mostly about revitalizing the downtown core,” Casemore said last week. His partner, Tanya Wall, said
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the development will involve other business operators in the Creston Valley. “We have an idea of what we want to do with the building,” she said. “Our hopes and dreams are to build community partnerships, both by using local products and suppliers in construction, and eventually in the business itself.” Casemore said he and Wall had looked at the building, which has sat empty for about eight years. “We learned that it was for sale and there were other interested parties, but nothing firm,” he said. He made an offer and received a counteroffer, but his interest
was contingent on having a hazardous materials analysis. Western Canada Safety Services Ltd. conducted an inspection, taking 51 samples, and produced a 37-page report. “It wasn’t as bad as we thought,” Casemore said. Once he had quotes on the cost of abatement, he renegotiated the price and made the purchase. “We are well aware of all of the risks, and of all the work that needs to be done,” he said. “We are now working with an architect to create conceptual drawings.”
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