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Animal Alliance decries Cranbrook deer cull TRE VOR CR AWLEY
An animal rights organization is accusing the City of Cranbrook of conducting an urban deer cull in advance of a regional translocation trial that is about to get underway. Date-stamped video footage and photographs have
been posted on a website— www.bcdeer.org—and Liz White, a board member of the Animal Alliance of Canada, says that she hasn’t been able to find any evidence of a council vote to approve or fund a cull. The cull is preceding an anticipated study into the
potential of translocation as a solution for urban deer. Cranbrook, Kimberley, Elkford and Invermere are participating in the project, which the Animal Alliance of Canada has invested $10,000. “I’ve talked to councillors in other communities who are participating in the relo-
cation study—they knew nothing about it. When we first agreed to give money to the relocation program, I was told that there would be no culling if relocation took place,” said White. “On that basis, we decided to contribute money and then I find out in December
that, in fact, there is a cull going forward in Cranbrook.” The video footage—datestamped Jan. 5, 2016—shows a fawn enclosed in a clover trap before contractors arrive on scene. The video alleges the fawn paced for two hours
the contractors arrived, collapsed the trap and used a bolt gun twice on the animal. White alleges that even though the bolt gun was used twice, the animal can still be seen moving as it is dragged off the video frame.
See ANIMAL ALLIANCE, Page 4
Noémi Kiss
Renowned vocalist returns to Cranbrook for intimate show BARRY COULTER
COURTESY DARYL CALDER
A good number of naturalists from the East Kootenay and Crowsnest Pass joined forces on December 27 for the Cranbrook Christmas Bird Count. And the results are in. See all the details, Page 4.
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A renowned vocalist from the West Kootenay is bringing her art back to the East Kootenay with a series of concerts in the area. Hungarian vocalist Noémi Kiss was last seen and heard, singing “Stella Natalis” with the Symphony of the Kootenays — and backed by a hundred-voice choir — at the Key City Theatre in December. But her coming performances will be markedly different. On Saturday, Jan. 30, at Centre 64 in Kimberley, and on Saturday,
Feb. 6, at the at the Royal Alexandra Hall in Cranbrook, Kiss and Nelson classical guitarist Rita Deane will perform a concert of love songs, in a variety of languages, that bridges the centuries. Noémi Kiss (pronounced Kish) spoke to the Townsman from Nelson, about the different approaches and rewards in performing with a symphony versus with a solo accompanist in a small hall, about language and song, and other musical matters.
See KISS, Page 5
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