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March 16, 2021
Kelowna International Airport
Air service to Vancouver to continue
Access to Kelowna for medical care and other necessities created by government cutbacks and downloading is going to be more difficult for East Kootenay residents the next half a year.
Pacific Coastal Airlines is temporarily suspending service between Kelowna International Airport (YLW) and Canadian Rockies International Airport (YXC) in Cranbrook, the company announced last week.
The last scheduled flight to operate this route will be on Thursday, April 29.
“Since we resumed our scheduled flight service last June we have not seen sizeable customer demand return for this route,” stated Johnathan Richardson, Vice President of Commercial Services with Pacific Coastal. “We will continue to assess future demand and anticipate to resume our non-stop flight service between Kelowna and Cranbrook this coming fall.”
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One-industry towns face a formidable and familiar hurdle when that industry, for reasons of economics or obsolescence, goes kaput. For one soon-to-be fading settlement in the Kootenays region of southeast British Columbia, the answer was schnitzel, schnapps and sauerkraut.
In the 1970s, confronting the inevitable conclusion that its mineral resources would soon be spent, the alpine community of Kimberley embarked on an ambitious scheme of downtown renewal. With mock-chalet facades, an outdoor pedestrian mall known as the Platzl and no shortage of hanging flower baskets and lederhosen, it reinvented itself as “the Bavarian city of the Rockies.”
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February 25, 2021
Kimberley SAR photo
Cranbrook Search and Rescue teamed with Kimberley Search and Rescue responded late yesterday afternoon (Feb. 24) to an avalanche in the Summer Lake area involving a buried individual.
Cranbrook SAR said initial reports were that one person had been buried and had been dug out by companions. Due to the nature of the call Kimberley SAR was called to assist. A crew of three made up of one Cranbrook SAR Avalanche Technician level 2 and two Avalanche rescue team members flew to the scene.
The helicopter wasn’t able to land close to the patient, so the team members were dropped off nearby and then skied to subject. The members carried medical equipment and once with the subject prepared him for transport.