FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6, 2015
CONCERT
WAR TIME MUSIC WITH ARNE
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RESTORATION
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The snow guns will begin working at KAR, but the City will be watching water consumption.
SKI SEASON BEGINS
Snowmaking begins at KAR CAROLYN GRANT PHOTO
Councillors Kent Goodwin and Nigel Kitto as well as Mayor Don McCormick stopped by Maryville Elementary School on Thursday to take up a challenge issued by the kindergarten classes. The students are holding up the healthy snacks they promise to eat.
Live 5-2-1-0 challenge for Council C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
All Kimberley residents are being asked to take the Live 5-2-1-0 challenge from Healthy Kimberley. Healthy Kimberley is a project of the East Kootenay Division of Family Practice’s ‘A GP For Me’ initiative. The Live 5-2-1-0 challenge is a simple concept. Eat five or more vegetables or fruits every day; no more than two hours of screen time a day; play actively at least one hour a day; and choose healthy drink options with zero sweetened drinks. Erna Jensen, who is driving the challenge in Kimberley, says the screen time of two hours is recreational screen
time, those who work with computers can control how much time they spend on screen after work. Recently Marysville kindergarten students have challenged Kimberley’s Mayor and Council to live the 5-2-10 lifestyle until the end of November and the challenge was accepted on Thursday when Mayor Don McCormick, and councillors Kent Goodwin and Nigel Kitto visited the classes to accept. Students will be tracking their progress weekly, focusing each week on one of the four goals, such as five servings of fruit or vegetables. They will fill out a chart which asks questions such as ‘what was my favourite fruit this week’ and ‘next week the
City to keep a sharp eye on water usage as crucial snowmaking begins C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
As reported in yesterday’s Bulletin, the Kimberley Alpine Resort will begin snowmaking operations as the temperature is becoming cool enough. However, Matt Mosteller, VP of Marketing for RCR said that the resort was sensitive to the low water situation. It was reported at Council last week that with no appreciable fall rains, spill over the Mark Creek dam was still only three centimetres. SUBMITTED PHOTO Mayor Don McCorCouncillors Bev Middlebrook and Nigel Kitto are hitting the gym in prepara- mick says it’s a balanction for the LIve 5-2-1-0 challenge. ing act between low water and the need to the Healthy Kimberley tact Jensen at Erna.agp- get the ski season off to fruit I will try is...’ For more information Facebook page. (like forme@gmail.com or a good start, given that the Kimberley 250.427.9360. or to sign up go to: www. us!), KAR is vital to the winlive5210.ca/?p=11913, Medical Clinic, or conter economy in Kimberley.
The resort will be making snow but with some limitations, the Mayor says. “We did a test on Tuesday with use of the snow guns, and the dam level dropped about one centimetre,” he said. “This proved to be acceptable under the current circumstances, so Mike Fox (the city’s Manager of Operations) has approved RCR to make snow. It is critical that we get the ski season off to a good start, so the City is doing all it can to support those efforts.” However, an upper limit of 170 litres per second has been established. McCormick says the draw-down on the reservoir will be measured each day. “If the 170 litres/ second is exceeded, the snow making will have to stop,” he said. “Under the current water conditions, this is a reasonable compromise that benefits RCR without putting our water supply in jeopardy.”