Deer Cull
Another deer cull — this time including a number of fawns.
Real men do not go after fawns. The ones that do are, in my view, cowards and afraid of their own shadows.
My view is because this was done in so much secrecy. Our mayor and those on council that approved it should resign, actually.
I see a photo in the paper — a doe watching its fawns. They were in the trap that collapsed on them. I remember scenes like that out of World War II — only with people! Women separated from their children at the concentration camps.
I used to have a nice doe that visited me here occasionally. Haven’t seen it some three weeks now. It was peaceful. Sacred, silent wisdom.
You who believe in and do this evilness — why aren’t you demanding a cull of the Big Horn Sheep up at Radium, in the name of protecting the public. Huh? They walk in town too.
Rhonda (Jackson) Brass, Cranbrook
Bavarian theme
Congratulations to Kimberley City Council and the Kimberley Chamber of Commerce (formerly known as Bavarian Society), new business owners and other parties.
You have finally managed to bury the concept of the Bavarian Theme in our lovely mountain town. I am not sure if you are aware that over the last 40 years a great deal of effort and money was spent to promote Kimberley as the Bavarian city of the Kootenays.
We were here almost from the beginning and I can honestly say that over the years thousands and thousands of dollars were being spent to promote this unique concept. Many business owners put in money, time and labour convert their properties to an almost authentic replica of a Bavarian town. We have spent more than a million dollars to rejuvenate the so called Platzl and this should all be forgotten!
Kimberley was different from cities and towns like Cranbrook, Wasa, TaTa Creek etc. You get the picture.
We had a concept and I agree it was not always properly promoted as such, but the idea was there.
Kimberley is a wonderful place. We have golf courses, a great ski area which could use a little help to get visitors, mountain scenery and great back country trails. To compliment this we had a theme which took visitors off the main highway to our town.
Now what do we have? Kimberley, a nice place to be. What nonsense. There are dozens of places in BC which are nice places to be. When a visitor travels Highway 3 and gets the choice to visit Fort Steele, heritage town, and Kimberley, a “nice place to be” it does take much deliberations as to where they will go.
Now on to another subject. The new Kimberley flume which is supposed to harness the floods of the Mark Creek. We call it the “cruise ship terminal” as is is big enough to accommodate a river cruiser. But all fun aside, this is a project which went way out of control. I realize that the old concrete sluice way which was installed after the major flood in the 40s needed repair, but did we have to build another St. Lawrence Seaway? Mark Creek is a mountain creek and in the spring it brings a lot of water, but in off season is just a tame, little mountain stream. In our 40 years living in Kimberley the creek never even got close to the top of the old concrete flume, which was the design of the day. Can anybody tell me why we have to spend $7 million to improve on something which needed some repair? The original estimate was for a sum of $4 million and it ballooned into this huge expense. Think of it: could we not have repaired most roads in Kimberley for this excessive overrun?
Now I do not entirely blame the new City Council on the mistakes which I think were made over the last few years, but I would have expected the members of council to be a little more enlightened when it comes to branding a new concept and to be more prudent when it comes to spending our tax money on a new river bed for Mark Creek.
Yes I was born in Bavaria, however this is not the reason that I felt so strongly about the theme of Kimberley. I just thought that this was the perfect fit for our lovely mountain town, but unfortunately, it’s all history now.
I am long retired and I should not care one way or the other but I feel this Bavarian concept was an ideal fit for our town and I am sorry to see that it is now past history.
H.B. Lademann, Kimberley
