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Cranbrook deer cull up in the air Council considering whether to proceed with a second cull as Invermere court battle continues
Sal ly MacD on al d Townsman Staff
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CELEBRATION OF THE SPUD: The Cranbrook Food Action Committee’s Public Produce Garden was the scene of a first annual Potato Picking Party, Sunday, September 30. The CFAC site in MacKinnon Park proved to be fertile ground indeed, as the spuds came tumbling out. See more, Page 2.
Massive meat recall hits B.C. The Canada-wide beef recall has now hit Cranbrook and Kimberley grocery store shelves A n n a l ee G r a n t Townsman Staff
The Canada-wide recall of beef products hit Cranbrook store shelves on Friday, Sept. 28, and included all major grocery stores in the city. A full list of the recalled products due to a possible E. coli contamination is available on the Canadian Food Inspec-
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tion Agency website, www.inspection.gc.ca. Locally the recall effects Giant Tiger, Overwaitea Foods, Real Canadian Superstore, Safeway, SaveOn-Foods and Walmart. All of the product best-by dates are listed on the CFIA website. There have been 10 confirmed cases of E. coli after the consumption of tainted meat
in Alberta, and four are under investigation. None have been reported in B.C. The list of products was expanded to 1,500 items as of Tuesday afternoon. Calls to Cranbrook’s Superstore, Safeway and SaveOn-Foods locations were referred to each company’s head offices.
John Graham, director of public affairs for Safeway Canada Ltd., said the products were swiftly removed from the shelves, and all remaining products are from distributors not involved with the current CFIA investigation.
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Cranbrook may not carry out its planned second urban deer cull this winter. Mayor Wayne Stetski said Monday that council “needs to consider how we proceed” as the District of Invermere gets ready to face court over the deer cull it performed earlier this year. Last November, Cranbrook culled 25 urban deer — 11 whitetail and 14 mule — using clover traps. It was the first of three East Kootenay communities to carry out a cull with a license from the B.C. Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. Kimberley culled 100 deer in January, and Invermere was set to cull 100 deer in February before a court injunction put a hold on the plans. The Invermere Deer Protection Society started a civil suit against the District of Invermere in February, claiming the district did not do enough public consul-
“So what we are saying to the province is: these are your deer. You need to make it very clear to municipalities what our options are, if any.” Mayor Wayne Stetski
tation prior to deciding to carry out a cull. The court injunction halted the cull for much of February, but the society’s request to extend the injuction failed and eventually Invermere was able to cull just 19 deer before its permit to euthanize 100 deer expired. Then in May, the Supreme Court of B.C. gave permission for the society’s civil suit against the district to continue. That case is still before the court, and it has legal implications for Cranbrook and Kimberley, according to Cranbrook Mayor Wayne Stetski.
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