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Visit the Sullivan Mine Online We had planned to welcome community members onto the mine property for site visits this fall, but are postponing as a precaution due to COVID-19. We will take a raincheck for now, and look forward to seeing you in person when it is safer to do so. In the meantime, we invite you to check out our new website to learn more about your neighbour up the hill. www.teck.com/sullivan
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We, as a community have faced tough challenges in 2020 with the COVID-19 pandemic. The impacts it has left and continues to leave on each of us individually, our families, our businesses, and our community will be felt for years to come. Despite the challenges, we have pulled together, cared for and supported each other. There is light at the end of this tunnel. As we move through 2021, remember who we are, Cranbrook. We are a strong, vibrant, caring community who comes together in times of need and we will continue to be. Thank you, Cranbrook!
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12 I WENT FOR IT. I WORKED AT IT. I HUNTED IT. Cranbrook's Gritty Impresario, Ferdy Belland
18 TOGETHER WE RIDE
24 HOCKEY GAMES IN EMPTY BUILDINGS
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Washing Your Hands Never Looked So Good In our summer issue, we highlighted some of the outstanding and creative initiatives East Kootenay residents have undertaken to support each other during this time. Asking how we could contribute, Kootenay Media teamed up with local writer/photographer extraordinaire Jeff Pew to offer a limited-edition framed print to raise money for the Kimberley Food Bank. The snazzy photo shows the iconic, soon-to-be-replaced, 1961 Jetson-styled Kimberley Civic Centre Arena marquee featuring a “Stay Healthy” message. Well, thanks to you, our amazing and generous readers, we raised $4,321.30 for the food bank, and everyone involved couldn’t be happier about the timing. Major thanks go out to Jeff for taking the photo and spearheading the idea and to Karen Vold for driving all over town delivering prints and mailing them across Canada. These beauties have been sent to Sudbury, ON and Campbell River, BC, and we even got word that one is now living at Harvest Meats in Yorkton, Saskatchewan! If you missed your chance to hang a piece of Kimberley history on your wall while reminding friends and family to stay healthy, we are pleased to announce that a run of second-edition framed prints is now available from Jeff @jeffpew (on Instagram) or at Arrow and Axe (@ArrowandAxe), with $10 from each sale going to the Kimberley Food Bank. Together, let’s keep everyone fed and healthy!
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I WENT FOR IT. I WORKED AT IT. I HUNTED IT. Cranbrook’s Gritty Impresario, Ferdy Belland. W + P: Jeff Pew
Ferdy Belland sits in Cranbrook’s Fire Hall Kitchen and Tap, drinking beer and dreaming. “Even Cranbrook catches up to cool, sooner or later,” he says, smiling. Belland, 49, has been awaiting this since 1984, when his blue-collar dad relocated his family here. “Art and culture was something buried that you had to dig for. I couldn’t wait to move away after high school,” he says. “Cranbrook was just sawmills, railways, mining, denim and F-350s. But every time I returned home, I noticed improvements: more colour, little pockets of cool emerging around town. When we finally moved back for good in 2012, I saw a big cultural upsurge in place, something I dreamed of as a teen.”
Belland — a Red Seal journeyman-carpenter, journalist, concert promoter, and
bassist for Bif Naked, one of Canada’s coolest bands — describes his newest venture: his co-purchase and retro-refurbishing of downtown Cranbrook’s Armond Theatre, the 68-year-old building that’s been dormant since 1999. Belland’s passion to transform the fatigued space into a multi-purpose community arts centre is contagious, almost evangelical. Someone at a nearby table asks him how it's progressing. Belland responds effusively about balcony seating, filtered-air exchangers, sound systems, draft beer taps, and the paperwork shuffling taken to restore power to the building. "We’ve been running hog-wild,” he says, “but it’s gonna be pretty cool.”
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“REIGNITING THE ARMOND IS ONE THING EVERYONE CAN AGREE UPON, IN TERMS OF DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION, COLOURIZING THE NIGHTLIFE, TOURISM ECONOMICS, AND CIVIC PRIDE." “There’s been so much universal community love coming to us about this project,” he says. “Reigniting the Armond is one thing everyone can agree upon, in terms of downtown revitalization, colourizing the nightlife, tourism economics, and civic pride." “There’s no one better in town for this venture,” Spencer Kerr says. Kerr, along with his flashing-and-roofing-business partner Casey Wright, have teamed up with Belland to bring the Armond back to life. “He’s always been involved in the arts community. We couldn’t find a better match to see this through,” Kerr says. “Ferdy has a background in construction
so he’s willing to work on the physical project as well as manage it once it’s open.” Belland has always been drawn to the arts: writing space-opera science fiction as a kid, cartooning, and being enraptured by his parents’ record collection. “Mom was a rockabilly songwriter in the ‘50s. There were hundreds of records all over the place. She was dropping the needle on Conway Twitty, George Jones, Elvis, and Jerry Lee Lewis. My older brothers were playing ‘70s rock like Cheap Trick, Moon Martin, Tom Petty, and the Grease soundtrack. There was music from every angle. It was important. My parents and brothers all had guitars. My Grade 3
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In his mid-teens, Belland became obsessed with music. He took guitar lessons with Cranbrook legend Jim Cameron. “The geometry of the fretboard confused me. Then, I discovered the bass: four strings and no chords. How hard can that be, right?” he says, laughing. "I avoided one deep well just to fall down another." In 1992, Ferdy moved to Nelson to attend Selkirk College’s Professional Music Program. “Seven weeks in, 120 students, and I was the only bassist. I played 18 hours a day. Bass. Bass. Bass. Theory. Ensembles. More theory.” After graduating, he joined Cellar of the Sun, an underground emo-prog band, and moved to Vancouver, where they gigged locally and along the I-5 circuit from Seattle to San Diego. By day, Belland worked for various Vancouver building contractors and gigged with bands at night. In 1997, tired of Vancouver’s then-fading scene, he returned to Cranbrook, where he became hyperactive in the arts: joining the board for Cranbrook Community Theatre and the Cranbrook & District Arts Council, freelance writing for the Cranbrook Townsman covering the local music scene, and organizing downtown street festivals. When he wasn’t working carpentry, demolition, roofing, or
The first movie to play at the Armond Theatre was "An American in Paris" in 1952. Photo provided by the Columbia Basin Institute. concrete, he’d perform either as a solo artist or playing bass with various local bands (TalisMen, Buffalohead, the Baker Street Irregulars). Ferdy created the independent record store Colossus Media on 9th Ave. and booked shows for national touring acts at the Tudor House Pub. “It was real. It was sticking,” Belland says, “but eventually I got burnt out.” In 2003, Ferdy and his wife Erin Dalton returned to Vancouver. “Erin believed in me and wanted me to succeed in music,” Belland says. “For the first five years, I played power-pop with Feminists and toured Canada with legendary bands like NoMeansNo and the Weakerthans. I played in Stone Cold Crazy, the only Queen tribute band west of Toronto. I toured Germany with (prog-folk trio) the Gentle Infidels. I wrote for Nerve Magazine, covering the Vancouver music scene. I took over for (famed gonzo-journalist) Nardwuar the Human Serviette, hosting a live-performance radio
program on CITR-FM. It was pretty cool. I got to hang out with Dave Alvin and Dweezil Zappa and Baroness. Life was great!"
in town: the Heid Out, the Fire Hall, Soulfood, Summer Sounds. These beacons of radiance.”
In 2012, Erin and Ferdy returned to Cranbrook and purchased Lotus Books (rebranded now as Huckleberry Books) to fulfill her dream of owning a bookstore. "Turnaround is fair play," Belland says. "I'd be nothing without Erin." Belland wrote again for the Cranbrook Townsman, booked shows at the Legendary Byng Roadhouse, and played bass with the Bison Brothers (roots-rock) and Anarcrist (thrash metal).
In the summer of 2018, Belland received a phone call every musician dreams of: it was Beth Torbert, aka Bif Naked, the legendary queen of goth punk who he’d met in the ‘90s. “We got something important to talk about,” she said. “You want to play bass with us?” Ecstatic, Belland tried to keep his cool when he called his friend to say he might be a bit late for beers. “Bif Naked just called!” he said. “She asked if I wanna be her bass player!” Bif's manager Peter Karroll followed up with a phone call and asked if he could learn twenty Bif Naked songs in two weeks before their next show. Belland assured Karroll that he could, no sweat. “Before I knew it, I’m in the Edmonton airport, struggling with two bass cases and a backpack, and there’s a valet driver holding a sign with my name on it,” Ferdy recalls. “A few hours later,
Ferdy was creating a scene, or what musical genius Brian Eno calls Scenius, the intelligence of a whole wraparound culture. “Look what’s happened to Cranbrook’s culture in the last ten years,” Belland says. “Heritage buildings are being repurposed for brewpubs and funky restaurants. There are all these islands of coolness happening
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I went on stage in front of a thousand people, stone cold, no rehearsals. One, two, three, four − and we nailed it. Afterwards backstage, Chiko Misomali (Bif Naked’s drummer) gave me a big hug and said, ‘It’s like you’ve always been playing with us.’ Next thing I knew, I was getting hammered on vodka sevens and eating shrimp rings.” The Armond Theatre rebirth has been on Ferdy’s mind for the last ten years. “This is the third partnership I’ve been involved with since 2013 that attempted to resurrect the Armond, a dream that other people like James Neve, Galen Olstead, Michael Stambulic, and Brent McIver all shared.” He recalls the Sunday afternoon that his friends Spencer Kerr and Casey Wright called him unexpectedly. “They said, ‘We want to have you over for Baileys and coffee.' Cryptic, yet intriguing!" At the shop, Belland's mind was soon blown.
IT’S A HUGE PROJECT, WITH LENGTHY HAZMAT ABATEMENTS, STRUCTURAL UPGRADES, AND ART DECO RESTORATIONS ALL SCHEDULED ONE AFTER THE OTHER, BUT BELLAND AND HIS PARTNERS ARE ENTHUSED ABOUT THE PROGRESS. "‘Roofing has been really good to us. Now we want to do something different and give back to the community, but we’re only going to do it if you’re involved.’ The next day they brought over a cashier’s cheque and we bought the building.”
It’s a huge project, with lengthy hazmat abatements, structural upgrades, and Art Deco restorations all scheduled one after the other, but Belland and his partners are enthused about the progress — even during pandemic times — planning a grand opening sometime in 2022. “We’re in no hurry to fail,” Ferdy says. “We have no choice but to be patient, hold our water, stay focused, and wait for the good times to re-emerge, just like everybody else.” Belland is dreaming about the bright future, gigging once again with Bif Naked (and his current prog-metal project Phaeton) and managing the Armond Theatre, yet chuffed about where he’s at in the space-time continuum: “I've played over a thousand live shows over the past thirty years, from solo acoustic gigs in coffee shops to headlining in front of thousands of people. When I strode onstage at the start of my Canada Day 2019 set with Bif Naked, I glanced out and saw the waves of human heads, 30,000 people, disappearing back to the sunset horizon. It felt right. I aimed to do this sort of thing when I was eighteen, and there I was, thirty years later, with my youthful vitality still burning white-hot. I dug into my bass as Chiko smashed the drums and Bif ran in from the other side of the stage. The crowd roared and off we ran. If I never played live again, I could tell myself that I wasn't some blowhard loudmouth who merely talked big talk. I went for it. I hunted it. I worked at it. I did my damnedest to earn it. And I did it.”
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WE ALL KNOW HOW LUCKY WE ARE to live in paradise, surrounded by expansive wilderness, snow-capped peaks, and quiet swaths of winter forest.
And this year, we’re all more enthusiastic than ever to get outdoors and enjoy it — especially if doing so entails an exciting sport that the whole family gets to take part in. After all, fresh air and our immediate family are the two main things we get to enjoy to the fullest for our first pandemic winter!
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The Cranbrook Snowmobile Club was founded an incredible forty years ago — and is still going strong today.
It’s no surprise that snowmobiling is such a popular sport in the East Kootenays: it offers unbridled access to the gorgeous backcountry wilderness and offers as much (or as little) of an adrenaline rush as you need to get the most out of the chilly days. Thankfully, whether you’re a seasoned rider or just starting out, our area is lucky to have a network for snowmobilers that provides a rich offering of resources to keep you safe, warm, and having fun.
The Cranbrook Snowmobile Club was founded an incredible forty years ago — and is still going strong today. Doug Williamson, one of the Club’s founding members and an executive board member, says, “It’s one of the bigger clubs in the province. We have upwards of 225 members.” The Club’s strong and community-oriented presence is felt in its landmark agreement with the provincial government. Club members are offered full access to a huge expanse of land near
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Lumberton, just shy of 15 kilometres south of Cranbrook, in exchange for the Club’s upkeep of grooming and brush cutting the area’s trails. This is a fantastic perk for club members, who are offered unlimited access to the area with their small membership fee; the general public pays a $25 fee each time they use the area. The trail grooming is a state-of-the-art operation, run completely by volunteer labour. “Guys will head out there after their workday or after dinner and groom all night if they have to,” Doug tells me, explaining the commitment and professionalism of the Club’s leading members. The result of this grooming and the hard work that goes into it, is safer, smoother trails for riders accessing the area. The machine used — a 2005 Pistenbully, the leading model of groomers — was purchased completely with the Club’s own savings three years ago, and is a fantastic upgrade from the old skidoo with a drag that was previously used. Unlimited access to this gorgeous stretch of powder-covered land with endless groomed trails isn’t the only benefit the Club offers its members. In 1986, it erected a two-story cabin for riders to use at their leisure. With a warm stove and a fully-stocked woodpile for the winter, it’s both a safety feature and a fun luxury for those out enjoying the wilderness. It sleeps 20 people, and while some club members have the key, any snowmobiler in the area is welcome to pop in for lunch by the fire. There’s also an emergency shelter beside the cabin, which is always left open, in case anyone’s ever in a jam. “We’re very fortunate to have had the permission and lease to build the cabin,” Doug says, referring to the cooperative relationship the Club shares with BC Parks.
The hut is yet another testament to the dedication of the Club’s members: it was built solely by volunteer labour, using only $4,000 cash and donated materials. The community spirit and commitment to a shared passion energize all the Club’s initiatives. They have an annual poker run and occasional big raffles to raise money for their projects. They also host work parties in the fall, where members can take part in dead tree removal and much-needed brush cutting. “There’s a crew of very dedicated volunteers,” Doug says warmly. Three years ago, the group received permission to build a second cabin, out at the far end of the valley near Helen’s Lake. The area is designated as a provincial recreation site, operated by the Cranbrook Snowmobile Club. This time, the Club received a generous grant from Columbia Basin Trust and built the new cabin, in a gorgeous location, with volunteer labour. It’s clear that the Club enjoys symbiotic relationships with the provincial government, the landscape, and with each member: there’s a sense of camaraderie that’s evident everywhere.
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“We try to be good stewards of the land,” Doug says. “We’re very aware of our responsibilities and of environmental issues — such as ongoing caribou issues in the past.” It’s clear that Doug and the other Club members are keenly aware of their presence on this landscape and the responsibilities that come with it — both for environmental impact and the members’ own safety.
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The Club encourages everyone, at the very least, to have the right equipment — a beacon, probe, and shovel — and to know how to use them well. “We’ve also brought in guests to give small avalanche safety courses,” Doug says, and the board often directs members to larger avalanche courses in Fernie and Golden. While avalanches do happen, of course, in general Lumberton is a safer area, compared to the steeper grades of places like Revelstoke. “It’s great for families to ride in relative safety,” Doug says, mentioning that membership is free for anyone under the age of 17. They also offer a discount for couples. There are great benefits that come with membership to the Cranbrook Snowmobile Club, and they go far beyond access to groomed, safe trails and two cozy, warm cabins. “It’s the social aspect,” Doug says, putting it mildly. It’s clear that the fuel for these snow enthusiasts isn’t necessarily just the gas in their machines — it’s community and connection. You’re welcome to join the Cranbrook Snowmobile Club. You can do so by visiting their website, www.cranbrooksnowmobileclub.ca, or by heading to one of the Club’s monthly general meetings. They’re hosted at the Heritage Inn, — who generously donate a meeting room to the Club,and also offers discounted room rates to its members — the third Wednesday of the month. Happy riding!
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I’M GOING TO BE HONEST; sitting in my home quarantined with my family back in April, one of the last things I was thinking about was how to watch a junior hockey game this winter, but then again, I’m not Nathan Lieuwen. “The support has been incredible,” says Lieuwen, the former professional goalie responsible for bringing the Cranbrook Bucks to fruition. In October 2019, the British Columbia Hockey League announced they would be expanding to 18 teams and the excitement both on and off the ice was palpable as Lieuwen and his team got to work building a hockey club that would be competitive from day one of their first season. Except day one hasn’t arrived yet. 25 / WINTER 2020 / GO CRANBERLEY
“ THE HARDEST PART is staying connected to our fans and the community. One of our top priorities as a team is to be an interactive part of the community, and not being allowed to connect with fans off the ice is challenging.” The COVID-19 pandemic has made supporting our local hockey teams incredibly different. As one might assume, the ever-changing physical distancing rules dictating when, where and with how many people we can gather, have made ‘going to the game’ all but disappear. Even as I write this, the rules are changing and the start of the regular BCHL season is not confirmed. I asked Lieuwen if that was the hardest part of this pandemic. “The hardest part is staying connected to our fans and the community. One of our top priorities as a team is to be an interactive part of the community, and not being allowed to connect with fans off the ice is challenging. We do our best through emails and social media, but it’s not the same.” Twenty minutes up the road, the Kimberley Dynamiters faced a different challenge. With 21 senior players eligible to return to the team this year, many had a difficult choice: stick with hockey and commit to an unknown future, or hang up the skates and focus on school or head off to work. Only five players have come back for the 2020/21 season.
Derek Stuart, head coach and general manager of the Nitros says that retention has been the hardest part but he fully understands. I ask him what the highlight has been and he doesn’t even have to think about it. “I’m very impressed and grateful for the support from our sponsors during these times. Our sponsorship coordinator Shari Reid has done a phenomenal job retaining and adding new supporters. Without them we can’t afford to play and would have to take the year off, so for me and the players they are definitely the highlight.” The Kimberley Dynamiters' regular season in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League looks much different this year. Teams are divided into one of five cohorts where they will play in phases, with new teams each phase. The 54th season of the KIJHL will see each team play 30 games, 12 in phase one, to be concluded on December 19th.
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WHEN THE DOORS ARE OPENED and we are finally allowed to pile into arenas around the world, fans of the Cranbrooks Bucks are barely going to recognize their home barn. The City of Cranbrook has been hard at work completing a major renovation to the building, including a new roof, seamless glass, new boards, paint and a full renovation of the suites. You’ll be forgiven, however, if you don’t notice any of that, as your eyes will be glued to the brand new video scoreboard hanging over centre ice. “The new scoreboard and production equipment are a game changer,” says Lieuwen, “The quality is amazing. It’s going to be an incredible experience. We’re also really excited to have our own in-house channel, so each TV around the building is being fed the same live audio and video as the scoreboard.” This leads to perhaps the most important question for both leaders: How do the fans still watch and support their teams this year? The answer: HockeyTV, a subscription service bringing professional production of junior hockey games onto our screens. You’ll find multiple camera angles, live replay, and a quality we’ve come to expect in an era of live streaming. Not only are fans able to keep up with their teams, but teams are able to provide extra value to sponsors through the coverage. Everybody wins.
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The Chickadee’s Brain and Other Winter Miracles
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“Adversity is what causes organisms to change and adapt. Adversity is the catalyst for evolution.” ~ Yvon Chouinard ~ To live in the Kootenays is to know four distinct seasons: the warming, green rebirth of spring; the rich aroma of a summer’s evening; the vivid edge to an autumn breeze; and of course, the muffled, cold, blue-grey of a winter morning. The change from one seasonal act to the next creeps along almost imperceptibly, eased forward by the subtle shift of our earth’s leaning, wobbling journey around a blazing star. Pretty magical stuff, right? Well, that’s not the half of it. Despite the transitions being such a subtle shift, the seasonal differences, at least in our Kootenay world, are extreme. The life-giving, warm lushness of spring and summer are diametrically opposed to the harsh, cold stinginess of our dark months. Winter is not a kind season. And yet — and this is the magical bit — the natural world not only endures winter, it thrives in it. To be successful in a world where everything is in short supply; the light, the warmth, the nutritional energy, critters (all living things for that matter) must have evolutionary coping strategies in place. And gentle reader, they are as unique as they are astounding. For the purposes of this treatise, I have focused on four of the more obvious winter survival strategies evolution has provided: adaptation, hoarding, hibernation and migration.
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Let’s face it; Charlie Darwin had a handle on this. Come up with a better way or face the consequences, and dire they may be. The snowshoe hare and ptarmigan magically alter their colours from brown to snow white as the colours of their world change, thus better camouflaging themselves from winter predators. The mountain-dwelling pika — a smallish member of the rabbit family — has tiny ears and a stubby tail that are close enough to its body to stay warm and resist frostbite. These are the kind of evolutionary changes that just might make the difference between being at the wrong end of the food chain and/or becoming a pikasicle.
If winter snows and cold temperatures make finding food all but impossible, then stocking up the pantry for the hard times ahead is, for some at least, a great option. Again, the pika demonstrates this very well. This little rock rabbit with the Mickey Mouse ears stays active all winter long. It can do this because it spends the days of summer harvesting vegetation, hauling it back to its den and piling it into stacks where it will dry and maintain its nutritional value. This is a hard-working rodent that knows what it means to make hay while the sun shines. Squirrels, beavers, chipmunks and birds like jays, ravens and chickadees are also known to cache food. There is actually some evidence that parts of the diminutive chickadee’s brain increase in size and capacity every fall, so that come winter, it can better remember where it has hidden all its stashes. Proof indeed, that in the natural world, the fabulous is possible.
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The big sleep. The proverbial, “Wake me up when it’s over.” strategy. It is, however, a bit more complex than that. True hibernation is considered to be when an organY e l l ow ter ism goes into a dormant state, drastically reducing its heart and breathing rate as well as its body temperature. Columbian ground squirrels (those critters we mistakenly call gophers around here) and marmots are true hibernators, sleeping through the entire winter. The marmot for example, reduces its heart rate to three to four beats a minute and takes only two to Successful organisms must balance the impacts of winter on their energy supthree breaths in that time. plies. If you can’t store enough, adapt Bears on the other hand are not true hi- enough or lower your metabolism enough, bernators, they go into a state known as that leaves you one option: get the heck torpor. Round with accumulated fat they out of Dodge. climb inside their den — also known as a hibernaculum — and while they lower their There are animals without feathers that respiration and heart rates, it is not to the migrate, however, their reasons for doing level of a true hibernator. The bear’s tem- so have little to do with enduring winperature is lowered somewhat but they do ter. For the herds of caribou, runs of salmcome awake occasionally and are able to on and pods of whales that move huge move. Which I am sure came as a bit of a distances, their motivation has much more shock to the early biologists who crawled in to do with changing environs to facilitate with the dozing bears and had to use a rec- the optimal place to bear young and then tal thermometer to attain this information. moving to a preferred feeding ground.
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The smaller birds that overwinter here: the chickadee, the nuthatch and finches, just to name a few, stay warm using what on the surface at least, seems a counter-intuitive strategy. During these calorie-challenged times, they burn more energy. Flitting here and there in search of food, these delicate creatures raise their metabolism and increase their body temperature. When they do have to rest, they will fluff up into a ball of feathers to trap the heat they are creating for themselves.
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Humans can fly but it is a behavior that has become much less appealing as of late. Migrational birds, on the other hand, have the gift of flight and thus can move extreme distances without completely depleting their energy reserves. No dingy hibernaculum for them, no siree! As good an example as any is the sandpiper-like shore bird called the Greater Yellowlegs. We have one that stops over at our pond every year in early summer for a toadlette or salamander snack. He or she is on their way to breed and lay their eggs in the swamps of Northern B.C. and Alberta. When their procreation duties are complete, they will head south, possibly as far as the American gulf coast and spend their winter on the beach. Not a bad life if you can get it...and can fly. Humans can fly but it is a behaviour that has become much less appealing as of late. Confronted by closed borders, quarantines, and the common sense that comes with being risk averse in a global pandemic, migration to escape winter seems to be a far less plausible strategy. The Snowbird has had its wings clipped. The adversity we all face this winter goes far beyond just enduring the cold, shortened days forced on us by our off-kilter earth’s orbit. Thanks to a microscopic parasite, we are having to endure a change to our reality as we knew it...and it makes us uncomfortable. However, we can take heart in this fellow hominids, we have evolved as a species with not only an opposable thumb but also a top-of-the-line cerebral cortex. If anyone has the fabulous powers of dynamic ingenuity and innovation, it’s us!
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Nevertheless, as one of the biggest yearly fundraisers for Wildsight Kimberley Cranbrook, the show must go on! So, our local branch and longtime volunteers, Pegg Davidson, Lesley Harris, Lorna Locke, and Suzanne McAllister, (all of whom have been bringing the festival to the area on behalf of Wildsight Kimberley Cranbrook for over 25 years), will still be bringing us the next installment of Banff’s award-winning film fest, just doing it virtually. You’ll be able to enjoy awe-inspiring films and show your support by buying tickets to watch the fest online. Also, making the home team extra proud this year, one of our own, beloved wilderness writer and adventure photographer Bruce Kirby, has his new and critically-acclaimed book, Blue Sky Kingdom, featured in the book part of the festival.
Get ready to create your own bubble of excitement with family and friends, and experience the adventure as it unfolds from the comfort of your own living room! Tickets are already on sale and will be available through 2021. Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival is one of the largest and most prestigious mountain festivals in the world. From the over 400 entries submitted into the Festival each year, award-winning films and audience favourites are carefully selected to travel the globe. This year’s virtual tour will feature a collection of the most inspiring action, environmental, and adventure films. Visit wildsight.ca/kimcran for tickets, and stay up to date with Wildsight Kimberley Cranbrook’s Facebook and Instagram for more Festival news. Proceeds from ticket sales go towards supporting Wildsight Kimberley Cranbrook conservation, education and environmental sustainability initiatives.
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I’m on My Way: Kimberley’s Sgt. Chris Newel. The Nice Guy. W + P: Jeff Pew
“With my stature, you don’t want to get into too many scraps,” Kimberley’s recently retired Sgt. Chris Newel says while reflecting on his 30 years with the RCMP. “A guy could have 100 pounds on me. I’ve had to rely on other skills.” Newel, 61, known for his small-town, friendly demeanour stares over the city he’s been Detachment Commander of since 2015. “Years ago, as a constable, I’d stop highway vehicles in the middle of the night,” he says. “Pretty scary stuff. Fortunately, I never had a problem. I was the ‘nice guy.’ I’d make them feel comfortable. I’d get them talking. I’d start noticing things: a rental car, an air freshener, fast-food wrappers in the back seat, and all these inconsistencies in their stories. Pretty soon, I was making arrests with 22 pounds of dope, firearms, and a hundred thousand dollars in cash.”
“ M y daughter wrote me a poem once. She said, ‘My dad’s a problem solver.’ I like that: a problem solver.”
Newel, who’s been decorated for bravery and exemplary service, has always been drawn towards people. “You can learn from anybody,” he says. “Doesn’t matter if they’re ten or eighty-years old. I’ve always tried to work out the situation patiently and peacefully. My daughter wrote me a poem once. She said, ‘My dad’s a problem solver.’ I like that: a problem solver.” Before being posted in Kimberley, Newel worked in Cranbrook, Princeton, and Clearwater, where he could be on call in the middle of the night. “Over the years, I’ve worked with supervisors who’d say, ‘If you need help, call me back.’ As a supervisor, I never did this. I went out. Whether I was called for help by dispatch or a member, I ended the call with, ‘I’m on my way.’” Brian Clarkson, Newel’s longtime friend, gets choked up recalling a story Norm Guizzo told him before he passed. He’d lost consciousness while driving to the coast and totalled his car in the ditch. When he came to, not knowing what had happened, the first person he saw standing above him like an angel, was his old friend, Chris Newel, and he knew everything was going to be OK.
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FOOD TO LAST W: Alicia Bodaly
I want to live in a community where we can feed ourselves (and our neighbours) for weeks.
It’s late March when I start to hear about the bare grocery
store shelves. Shops are running low on meat, frozen vegetables and canned beans. I haven’t been shopping for food in weeks. I hear the reports and can’t help thinking, “These amateurs are doing it all wrong.” I confess. I have been a food hoarder for a long, long time. The satisfaction I get from a pantry full of canning and a freezer of prepared meals is unparalleled. I come by it honestly. My parents grew fruit and vegetables. They raised their own meat. They had a huge cold room, multiple freezers and fridges. They also had the property that you wanted to run to when the zombie apocalypse threatened. I only mention this to legitimize the information that follows. I know what I'm doing. Trust me. I have a healthy inner squirrel. First, let me get something straight; buying your local shops out of anything in particular does nothing good for anyone. Keeping something for the sake of not letting someone else have it is short-sighted, and well, greedy. I never want to go back to living in a world where strangers feel the need to justify their toilet paper purchases to me in a grocery store line-up. I want our community to be better than that. We are a resourceful bunch, so I’m confident we can learn from our mistakes. They say that most cities only have enough food to feed their population for three days. I want to live in a community where we can feed ourselves (and our neighbours) for weeks. Let me walk you through the basics. The number one lesson here is to not throw food away. Food is precious. Don’t let it get lost in the abyss of your fridge or cupboards. People work hard to grow it, transport it and cook it. Statistics show that over one-third of the food brought into grocery stores ends up in landfill. Finish what’s on your plate and what’s in your fridge before you buy more. If we all did a better job of that alone, everyone would benefit.
Lesson number two: be flexible and practical. Do not buy something just because it's there and you think you might need it one day. Purchase what you really know you'll eat. Save it in a way that still makes it appealing later. Also, learn how to be flexible with your shopping list. If you need beans and there are no canned beans but there are bags of dried beans, learn how to cook dried beans. Buy fresh, not frozen food, whenever possible and learn the ins and outs of freezing the food yourself. Don’t panic if your favourite brand or flavour isn’t in stock. Take it as an opportunity to expand your cooking repertoire. The third lesson is to save food to celebrate the season, not out of panic. I know this lesson is coming a bit late this year as the ground is now frozen and most local farms are closed. But remember it next spring. When food is at its prime and being grown by your neighbours, that's the time to start stashing it away. Can and dehydrate beautiful fruit from Creston or what you can pick on the roadside. Freeze vegetables or if you are lucky enough to have a root cellar, store carrots, onions, potatoes and squash for the winter months. You still have the opportunity right now to find many of these long-lasting foods. Hoard them. Not because you are afraid but because they are amazing and you will be happy you did in January. There are a million resources out there to teach you the proper ways to can, freeze, dry and cellar food. Your very best resources out there are likely your parents or grandparents who have been doing this their whole lives. During these strange times, it is more important than ever to connect with people in different ways. This gives you one more excuse to call someone far away and share recipes and methods. Making soup is likely the most resourceful use of food I can think of. You can improvise and add whatever you happen to have in your home or what you can find inexpensively at the grocery store. Add leftovers, bits of sauce and vegetables that are ‘on the edge.’ Extra points if you make a stock with vegetable peelings and trimmings you have been saving in the freezer.
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Squash & Black Bean Soup INGREDIENTS: 2 TSP olive oil or other cooking oil 1½ CUPS onion, diced 3 CLOVES garlic, minced 1 MEDIUM jalapeño, minced (seeds and stem removed) 1 SMALL sweet potato, diced 2 CUPS squash, peeled + diced 2 CUPS tomato, diced (canned or fresh) 1 CUP vegetable or chicken stock
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1 Heat oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add onion and
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1 TSP chili powder 1/4 TSP ground coriander 1 CUP cream or coconut milk 2 CUPS black beans, canned or cooked + rinsed
cumin, chili and coriander and cook 30 seconds before 2 Add adding tomatoes and stock. Add sweet potato and squash and simmer until tender, around 10 minutes.
3 Add coconut milk and use an immersion blender to partially purée mixture. You can also use a conventional blender and blend half of the soup.
2-3 TBSP lime juice
black beans and cook another 5-10 minutes and allow 4 Add flavours to develop. Add salt and pepper as required.
Sea salt to taste
5 If you are freezing the soup, this is a good time to do it!
3 CUPS greens Chopped cilantro
chopped greens and lime juice and cook just until greens 6 Add have wilted.
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HOW DO YOU BUILD A COMMUNITY? PART THREE
Writing: Grady Pasiechnyk Artwork: Lori Joe Photos: Columbia Basin Institute
In the past two issues of GO Cranberley, we dove into the unique relationship between Teck Resources Limited (Teck) and the city of Kimberley, or perhaps more accurately, the community we know today.
have always been fascinated by the process of building a community. Recently I've been thinking about how lucky it was that the Sullivan Mine, Kimberley’s beating heart for nearly 100 years, was discovered in 1892 and not 2020. Of course, the 19th-century pioneers could have no idea the impact their discovery would make, nor the community it would eventually give life to. The simple fact is that had the generational ore body been discovered today, Kimberley would be a mining camp. I suppose it was a mining camp in 1909 when it was acquired by the CPR-owned Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, but mining camp back then had a much different meaning. If you were heading off to work at the new Sullivan Mine in the early 1900s, you were probably bringing your whole life with you. Eventually, enough people moved here for work that it made sense to start other businesses and services to provide these employees and their families. Rather than portable trailers, people built houses, and it didn’t take long for community halls, pubs, stores and swimming pools to pop up too.
SPOKANE STREET, KIMBERLEY Photo taken in 1918
What followed was over
100 years of growth and prosperity. The Sullivan Mine was an essential part, if not the essential part of the economic and social fabric of the community. When the last crew clocked out in 2001, after 90 years of operations, the mine was the largest single contributor to Kimberley’s tax base as well as the city’s largest employer. It’s been nearly 20 years since that last shift, a time frame that Ryan Peterson, Senior Supervisor, Maintenance and Projects for the Sullivan, points out is still the early stages of closure in the afterlife of a mine. “The ongoing maintenance of the Sullivan Mine is far from over; it’s still really in its early stages. Twenty years might feel like a long time, but we’re
striving to make the next century successful.” For many people, it may appear that Teck has moved on to other projects, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. The former concentrator site is now home to Teck’s Legacy Properties office and a team of twenty or so dedicated environmental scientists, geotechnical engineers, health and safety personnel and support staff. The main priority of this office is to oversee former mine sites managed by Teck across Canada. From their desks looking over Chapman Camp, the team focuses on a few key priorities: healthy ecosystems, water quality, public safety and working with communities to implement post-closure land use opportunities that provide lasting benefits.
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3. K imberley Dynamiters VS Calgary Stampeders Kimberley Civic Centre, Circa 1970
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4. D iving competition McDougal Pool, August 1964
“ T HE ONGOING MAINTENANCE OF THE SULLIVAN MINE IS FAR FROM OVER; IT’S STILL REALLY IN ITS EARLY STAGES. TWENTY YEARS MIGHT FEEL LIKE A LONG TIME, BUT WE’RE STRIVING TO MAKE THE NEXT CENTURY SUCCESSFUL.”
Chapman Camp, KIMBERLEY Circa 1938
THERE IS ONE IDEA THAT HAS STRUCK THE HARDEST CHORD WITH ME: THE BUILDERS OF THE SULLIVAN MINE AND THE COMMUNITY OF KIMBERLEY WERE THE SAME PEOPLE. For Kimberley, the biggest priority is water management
and treatment. Peterson explains that there is constant monitoring and maintenance of a state-of-the-art water collection and treatment system that culminates at Teck’s water treatment facility. “The water treatment facility in Kimberley was actually the first of its kind in the world,” Peterson tells me. “It was built in 1979 with brand new processes and technology and has been continually updated to be the global standard being used today.” The breakthrough technology Peterson is referring to is called a High Density Sludge process, where drainage [water] is neutralized with lime, then oxidized in a reactor to remove iron and other metals from the water, followed by a process called flocculation
and thickening to separate the solids out of the water. Treated water is then returned to the St. Mary River while the solids are recirculated and used again in the process. In the 1970s, continuous advances in technology and a deeper understanding of the environment led Teck (then Cominco) to create the water treatment facility. These changes reflect one of the most significant characteristics of responsible mine closure and reclamation, something Peterson refers to as the “adaptive management cycle” or more succinctly “plan-do-check-act.” Put simply, this approach to closure management recognizes that there will always be continual improvement as technology gets better and standards advance. Often the completion of one
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OPPOSITE Mine crew, Sullivan Mine June 29, 1912
project will lead to new information, which then allows the Legacy Properties team to improve a process at another site. While it’s comforting to know that a group of dedicated experts is constantly on the lookout for the safety and wellness of our communities and the local environment, Teck also contributes to the community through its Community Investment program, a fund set up to support communities with both cash and in-kind services. Last year alone, 945 organizations were supported in nine different countries. We see the direct impact of it here in Kimberley, as contributions from that program have gone to numerous community groups, sports teams and projects, including ongoing support of the Kimberley Underground Mining Railway.
IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES.
I’ve been writing this series in my mind since the moment I moved back home in 2014, and I have to admit that most of the concepts were formed years ago. However, throughout the process of sitting down and writing this over the last six months, there is one idea that has struck the hardest chord with me: the builders of the Sullivan Mine and the community of Kimberley were the same people. Through talking with people like Ryan Peterson, Mick Henningson or even my grandfather Bert Banks, you realize that there is very little separation between 'the company’ and ‘the town.’ The same folks that hauled ore out from below us were also the builders of our arena and pools, and that is as true today as it was anytime over the last century. The same dedicated people making sure our water is clean and our land is reclaimed are also playing banjo in our local bands, serving on our city council and hosting tourists on the underground mining railway. On the surface, a community is nothing more than a collection of people with a common interest, and while shared interests are certainly a part of the equation, a community is really more than the sum of its parts. It is history and shared experience. It is trials and achievements. It is a neighbourly sense of looking out for each other and everyone contributing in their unique way.
Archival photographs were made available by the Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History, a non-profit society dedicated to furthering the preservation, documentation, and presentation of the Columbia River Basin’s human and natural history. For more information or to browse over 20,000 historic photos, visit www.basininstitute.org.
IT WAS THE WORKS OF TIME.
Coming Events We know this winter will be one for the history books, and we encourage everyone to stay positive, be kind, and keep doing things that nourish your bodies, minds, and spirits. Our events calendar may be a bit slimmer this season, but if you remain curious and creative, there are so many activities and resources to explore.
Keep Active
Keep Learning & Playing
Hit the trails! How fortunate we are to have an amazing, natural playground all around us. There are so many great ways to get the blood pumping, exercise the muscles, oxygenate the lungs, and get your recommended infusion of vitamin sunshine! This year why not try fat biking, cross-country and/or downhill skiing, ice fishing, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, skating, hockey, tobogganing, building snow things, or just enjoying some good old-fashioned walks!
So many great tutorials and programs are now online, so if you’ve ever wanted to learn a new language, how to do practically anything such as play an instrument, bake sourdough bread (check out Kimberley chef Rob Davidson’s popular Socially Distant Cooking Class on Facebook), crochet a sweater, renovate a room, etc., the sky (or maybe the Internet) is the limit! You can still get books and use the online resources available at both the Cranbrook and Kimberley public libraries, plus there’s an inexhaustible list of fun arts and craft project ideas available at kimberleyarts.com.
Keep Connected Hosting online events using platforms like Zoom can help you feel less isolated and more in touch with family and friends. Why not meet together for virtual cooking and meals, a game night, dance or yoga sessions, wine tasting, or a book club?
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Keep Hygge This might be the year we all perfect this lifestyle. Pronounced "hooguh," this Danish/Norwegian concept conveys the feeling of wellness and coziness found through enjoying the simple things in life. Your hygge essentials might include loungewear, throw blankets, candles and fireplaces, good books, fuzzy pets, and toasty beverages in your favourite mugs.
DECEMBER
FEBRUARY
Dec 1-24 | “Snowed In” Ongoing Open Art Exhibition Centre 64 Gallery & Online | Tuesday–Saturday | 1-5 pm
Feb 1–27 | Art Exhibition by Alysha Clarke Centre 64 Gallery & Online | Tuesday–Saturday | 1-5 pm Feb 5-6 | Avalanche Skills Training Level 1 – Sled | Cranbrook Online & Field Day up at Lumberton | Register at staywildbackcountry.ca
Dec 12 | Opening Day Kimberley Alpine Resort Kimberley | 9 am - 4 pm Dec 18 | Family Art Afternoon with Julie Liu − Online Art Session for the Entire Family via Zoom | Register at kimberleyarts.com | 4:30-5:30 pm Dec 17-18 | Avalanche Skills Training (AST 1) Ski / Snowboard | Online & Field Day | Kimberley Alpine Resort | Register at staywildbackcountry.ca Dec 18-20 | Level 1 CASI Snowboard Course | Kimberley Alpine Resort *Dec 18 | Dynamiters vs. Columbia Valley Rockies Eddie Mountain Memorial Arena | Invermere | 7:30 pm *Dec 19 | Dynamiters vs. Columbia Valley Rockies Kimberley Civic Centre | 7:30 pm Dec 26 - Jan 2 | Holiday Night Skiing Kimberley Alpine Resort | 5:30-8:30 pm
*Feb 5 | Dynamiters vs. Columbia Valley Rockies Kimberley Civic Centre | 7:30 pm *Feb 6 | Dynamiters vs. Columbia Valley Rockies Eddie Mountain Memorial Arena | Invermere | 7:30 pm *Feb 12 | Dynamiters vs. Fernie Ghostriders Fernie Memorial Arena | 7:30 pm *Feb 13 | Dynamiters vs. Fernie Ghostriders Kimberley Civic Centre | 7:30 pm *Feb 19 | Dynamiters vs. Golden Rockets Kimberley Civic Centre | 7:30 pm *Feb 20 | Dynamiters vs. Golden Rockets | Golden Arena | 7:30 pm
Dec 31 | New Year’s Eve Fireworks | Kimberley Alpine Resort | 8:30 pm
*Feb 21 | Dynamiters vs. Creston Valley Thunder Cats Kimberley Civic Centre | 7 pm *Feb 22 | Dynamiters vs. Grand Forks Border Bruins Kimberley Civic Centre | 7 pm
JANUARY *Jan 2 | Dynamiters vs. Fernie Ghostriders | Kimberley Civic Centre | 7:30 pm
*Feb 26 | Dynamiters vs. Columbia Valley Rockies| Invermere | 7:30 pm
*Jan 3 | Dynamiters vs. Fernie Ghostriders | Fernie Memorial Arena | 5 pm
*Feb 27 | Dynamiters vs. Columbia Valley Rockies Kimberley Civic Centre | 7:30 pm
Jan 3 – Mar 13 | Night Skiing | Kimberley Alpine Resort Every Thurs, Fri, Sat | 5:30-8:30 pm
*All of the remaining Kimberley Dynamiters’ games this season will be livestreamed on HockeyTV at hockeytv.com. No fans permitted.
Jan 5-30 | “COVID-19 Unframed” Ongoing Open Art Exhibition Centre 64 Gallery & Online | Tuesday–Saturday | 1-5 pm Jan 8-9 | Avalanche Skills Training (AST 1) Ski / Snowboard | Online & Field Day | Kimberley Alpine Resort | Register at staywildbackcountry.ca *Jan 8 | Dynamiters vs. Golden Rockets | Kimberley Civic Centre | 7:30 pm *Jan 9 | Dynamiters vs. Golden Rockets | Golden Arena | 7:30 pm Jan 15 | Dynamiters vs. Columbia Valley Rockies | Invermere | 7:30 pm *Jan 16 | Dynamiters vs. Columbia Valley Rockies Kimberley Civic Centre | 7:30 pm *Jan 22 | Dynamiters vs. Fernie Ghostriders Fernie Memorial Arena | 7:30 pm
March 2–27 | Art Exhibition by Chris Robson Centre 64 Gallery & Online Tuesday–Saturday | 1-5 pm
ANYTIME Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival Virtual World Tour Your Living Room | Hosted by Wildsight Kimberley Cranbrook Ongoing & Online | Buy tickets at wildsight.ca/kimcran Symphony of the Kootenays 2020 Pandemic Project: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92: II. Allegretto, by Ludwig van Beethoven | Online Link at sotk.ca
*Jan 23 | Dynamiters vs. Fernie Ghostrider Kimberley Civic Centre | 7:30 pm Jan 29-30 | Avalanche Skills Training Level 1 – Sled | Kimberley Online & Field Day up St. Mary’s | Register at staywildbackcountry.ca *Jan 29 | Dynamiters vs. Golden Rockets | Golden Arena | 7:30 pm *Jan 30 | Dynamiters vs. Golden Rockets Kimberley Civic Centre | 7:30 pm
MARCH
Leather Apron Revival Online Concert | Kimberley Arts and Live@Studio64 Search Kimberley Arts at Centre 64 on YouTube Elizabeth Shepherd and Michael Occhipinti Online Concert | Kimberley Arts and Live@Studio64 Search Kimberley Arts at Centre 64 on YouTube Leeroy Stagger and the Rebeltone Sound Live Stream Folk-Rock Concert | Sponsored by Kimberley Arts at Centre 64 | Search for “Leeroy Stagger Live Stream” on YouTube
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Downtown: Shopper’s Drug Mart
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Dogwood Drive/ Dawnsview Place
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Northstar Mountain Resort to Downtown
Kimberley is open for business with several important safety measures in place to protect our community from COVID-19. Don’t forget your mask and make sure to have fun!
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Purcell & Rocky Mountain Condos
Coming from Cranbrook? On weekdays, you can catch the KC Commuter bus for a worry free day of fun on the snow for $6 return trip. Find the schedule at www.bctransit.com.
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Trickle Creek Lodge / Ski Hill Base Area
Catch a ride downtown to explore the dining and shopping opportunities that Kimberley has to offer. The Peak to Platzl Downtown Shuttle is a free transportation service between the Kimberley Alpine Resort base area, on-mountain accommodations and the downtown shops, pubs and restaurants. Beginning Sunday, December 27th, the Shuttle will operate every day until closing weekend of the ski season.
MONDAY TO THURSDAY Downtown: Platzl at Howard Street
Looking for a little après-ski adventure?
Downtown – Kimberley Alpine Resort
Downtown: Shopper’s Drug Mart
Free Downtown Shuttle!
23 Peak to Platzl Ski Shuttle
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
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5:30 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00
NOTE: Free 23 Peak to Platzl Ski Shuttle service will also be available on New Year’s Day (January 1, 2021), Family Day (February 15, 2021), Good Friday (April 2, 2021), and Easter Sunday (April 4, 2021).
Please visit http://kimberley.ca/community/transportation-getting-here for more information on getting around this winter.