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RDEK discusses potential Jumbo seat at table
Province looking at tweaking Jumbo resort municipality’s deadline requirement TRE VOR CR AWLEY
The provincial government is considering removing a deadline set for January 1, 2017, that
would have allowed the Jumbo Glacier Mountain Resort Municipality a seat at the Regional District board table.
According to a letter written by Peter Fassbender, the Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development,
the ministry is looking at removing the timeline reference from a legal document called a Letters Patent.
and has a number of athletes meeting regularly to ‘pull’ on a legit arm wrestling table. The Kootenay Kings meet every Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. at the Legendary Byng Roadhouse and Soles is usually right in the thick of the action, whether it’s as a competitor or helping coach someone else in the middle, or after, their match. “It’s a really good little club we’ve got going and right now, it seems to be getting stronger and stronger,” he said. “…It’s coming on good, we’ve got a lot of good, good pullers there.”
gional services through taxation to a similar degree as small municipalities elsewhere, and sufficient investment in infrastructure would be a reliable predictor of the arrival of electors,” reads Fassbender’s letter. Any decision to amend the Letters Patent terms must come from the Liberal government Cabinet. While the letter was well received by Invermere Gerry Taft, a vocal opponent of JGMRM, he felt it didn’t go far enough, and put forward a motion to send another letter asking the provincial government for a sunset clause on the issue — a motion that was ultimately defeated. “How long do you leave something moving if you’ve removed any time commitments on a seat at this table?” said Taft. “You’ve removed any time commitments on a seat at this table, you’ve said they’re not going to get a vote until they have $30 million of assessed value. “So is there a limit? When does that happen? Or is there a point in time where you just leave it for 20 years?” Taft also took issue with the $30 million assessed value requirement. “From a philosophical point of view, I don’t agree that assessment should get you a vote at the table. For $30 million of assessment, I think Teck Coal could probably have a lot of seats at this table, or whatever example you want to use, so I don’t think tax assessment alone should mean anybody, entity, person, community, should have a seat at the table.”
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However, JGMRM could still get a seat at the RDEK board table the year after the taxable value of the land sur-
passes $30 million. “At that point, the owners of improvements at JGMRM would be contributing to re-
BARRY COULTER PHOTO
Valley Forged is pictured kicking off the action at the latest installment of the 2016 Summer Sounds Concert Series in Rotary Park, Saturday, August 6. Valley Forged was followed by Jani Van and the Warriors. Up next, Saturday, August 13, is Clayton Parsons (5-7 p.m.) followed by the Little Jazz Orchestra. See you there.
Ben Soles to bend wrists with the best Cranbrook arm wrestler off to World Championships in Bulgaria in October T R E V O R C R AW L E Y
A Cranbrook man is getting the chance to take on the best arm wrestlers in the world. Ben Soles has qualified for the World Arm Wrestling Championships and will represent Canada at the event, which is being held in Bulgaria in October. Soles has been involved with the sport for well over 25 years, and is a 2008 World Championship silver medalist in left arm. Now, he’ll get the
chance to go for gold. “It always means a whole lot to me,” said Soles. “This time, it’s a little bit scarier and special because it’ll be the first time off the continent and where it is, is right in the heart of big-time arm wrestling over there like Russia and that whole area, which has gotten really strong over the last few years.” He’s got the backing of the local arm wrestling PHOTO SUBMITTED club, the Kootenay Kings, Ben Soles (left) is representing Canada World Arm Wrestling which he helped revive with Pete During in 2008, Championships in Bulgaria this fall.