NEAR ENDERBY – It’s been nearly five months since a torrent of water and debris came down Cooke Creek, tearing through the Kingfisher Interpretive Centre.
They’re still dealing with the aftermath.
“It did quite a bit of damage around the site. We got mud and water inside the hatchery, we lost a fair bit of equipment, all of our trails or most of our trails here were compromised,” says operations manager Neil Brookes.
Volunteers were out today rebuilding trails as a crew worked to restore the creek.
With the help of volunteers, community members and various levels of government progress has been made.
“We’ve managed to continue doing field studies this fall with several schools. We still entertained summer visitors here,” added Brookes.
Tomorrow night in Enderby, there’s a fundraising dinner to help the centre replace what was lost.
“It is really exciting to see how important this place is to other people,” says Brookes of the fundraising.
“Most of the money is in place for the actual restoration of the creek, which is the big expense, but we lost a lot of equipment, art supplies and things like that in the hatchery,” he adds.
The centre is also planning to go ahead with its annual egg take next month. They will be collecting eggs so they can continue to raise Chinook Salmon October 11 and 12.
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