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Velma Conrad and her committee at Garden View present Faith Matthews with a $500 donation to Cominco Gardens. Garden View residents enjoy and appreciate the Gardens very much, and encourage other groups who enjoy the Gardens as much as they do to do everything they can to provide extra funds to keep them beautiful.
RDEK wants province to deny Jumbo voting rights at board table TRE VOR CR AWLEY
The RDEK is encouraging the province to make some amendments to a legal document that would allow the Jumbo Glacier Mountain Resort Municipality a voting seat. Back in 2009, a resolution was passed by the RDEK board requesting that if a resort municipality was created, that it should not be given a voting seat on the RDEK board until there enough of a local population to elect a local council. When the resort was incorporated in November 2012 by a provincial Order in Council, the legal document, called a Letters Patent, included language that would give a municipal director RDEK voting obligations the year after the taxable value of the land totals more than $30 million or after January 1, 2017. “When they set up the municipal-
So far, so good for deer study Reason to be ‘cautiously optimistic’ on translocation trial
ity in the Letters Patent, they basically said that this municipality would get a vote by 2017,” said Invermere Mayor Gerry Taft. “Obviously, that was a number of years ago and not much has happened up there.” The JGMRM council voted passed a resolution to extend their RDEK voting rights starting from 2020 instead of 2017, however, the RDEK felt it didn’t go for enough. “The Jumbo council itself has sent a similar request—they don’t even want a voting seat at the board right now. So their request was to change the number from 2017 to 2020,” said Taft. Taft says the RDEK board doesn’t want to see JGMRM get a vote that would affect regional interests if the municipality itself doesn’t have any residents.
Cautiously optimistic is the phrase that could be used for the East Kootenay Deer Translocation Study this far, says Ian Adams of Vast Resources. Vast Resources are conducting the field work and overseeing the project along with partners from the cities of Kimberley, Cranbrook, Elkford and Invermere, the Columbia Basin Trust and Animal Alliance of Canada.
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C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
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Mule deer from Elkford at the release site on March 9, 2016.