Carol Kelly, Executive Director at the Medicine River Wildlife Centre. (rdnewsNOW file photo)

By Josh Hall (Twitter: @Vancan19)

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Medicine River Wildlife Centre back on track after break-in

May 24, 2019 | 12:45 PM

The Medicine River Wildlife Centre remains focused after a break-in last month at their facility near Spruce View.

Executive Director Carol Kelly says not only did the community come through with enough donations to cover the cost of stolen items, but there’s some other good news.

“We are now planning for the new interpretive room to be completed and open to the public by the end of June, and then we will continue over the summer and into the fall to finish up the hospital rooms,” she says of the ongoing $1.2 million animal hospital project.

“We’ll be completed by the fall, for sure, as long as the $125,000 CFEP grant comes through.”

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This week, Kelly and her colleagues at the wildlife centre turned on the new hospital’s exterior lights for the first time, and the exterior as a whole is just about finished.

She adds that a recent donation from Ruth and Dorothy Bower moved things along substantially.

“It was a huge inconvenience, and it was upsetting in the beginning, but the response has been so wonderful,” she says of the break-in, which appears to have been part of a string of thefts as the centre’s safe was found at another crime scene.