SUMMING IT UP: Flowers, garbage and solar energy at Grand Forks city council
Flowers, solar energy, and garbage topped the list of topics at the last meeting of Grand Forks City Council on Monday Mar. 29. The meeting included both a primary meeting and a regular meeting. Delegations from the Boundary Museum Society and local business owner Martin Campbell opened the meeting. The Museum Society provided...
Councillor Moslin proposes a change for the location of a dog park in Grand Forks city park
A full gallery came out to lend their perspectives on the proposed change of location for a dog park in Grand Forks at the last city council meeting. Almost one year ago city council approved an enclosed dog park area in downtown's city park. Since that time, a formal society has formed, the Grand Forks Dog Park Society, and...
Summing it up - Grand Forks City Council - UPDATED
Grand Forks City Councillor Chris Moslin sat in the Mayor’s chair at their last meeting on Mar. 8 on behalf of Mayor Brian Taylor who was away. The regular meeting of council dealt with a number of ongoing business items including the proposed multi-use sports field, notice of motion to move the location of the proposed dog...
Midway starts working on development
The Village of Midway unveiled their economic development and diversification plan on Monday, Mar. 8 at a community meeting. Completed by Diana Brooks, regional project manager for the Ministry for Community and Rural Development, the plan has been in the works over the last couple of years. The plan was initially developed...
OP/ED: Big banks win in new budget
People who lost their jobs and other victims of this recession are the losers in this budget while banks whose profits just doubled hit the jackpot, said New Democrat Leader Jack Layton.“Budgets are about choices. Mr. Harper has chosen to enrich banks and oil companies, the most profitable corporations in the country, with ...
MLA Fleming, environment critic, talks about Copenhagen
MLA’s Michelle Mungall and Katrine Conroy will join Opposition Environment Critic Rob Fleming at the Selkirk Castlegar Campus on March 18. Rob will be discussing his 2009 Copenhagen Conference experiences. He will also speak about the positive changes that can happen towards a Green Economy. Rob will be speaking on Thursday,...
Sports field, AKBLG motions and Cannabiz feedback occupy Grand Forks city council
There was lively discussion on a wide variety of issues at the Grand Forks City Council meeting on Feb. 8. Development of a sports field in City Park, motions to go forward to higher levels of government for consideration, and community members’ comments were all a part of the session.Sports Field in City Park:Councillor...
Aquilini, fire trucks and cemeteries the hot topics for RDKB meeting
John MacLean, chief administrative officer for the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB), made it clear from the word go that the meeting in Christina Lake last Monday, Feb. 8 was not about the Aquilini proposal for a waste-to-energy plant. What it was about included the five-year financial plan for the area, and...
HST petition starting in April
Last fall Paul McCavour toured the Boundary Similkameen riding to set up volunteers to fight the harmonized sales tax (HST) slated to be initiated in B.C. next July. Now that Elections BC has approved in principal the Citizen’s Initiative Petition to fight the HST, it is time to get busy, said Fight HST organizer McCavour.“People...
Taking motions from local council to the province
As the deadline approaches for motions to be made at local government levels to take forward to the Union of B.C. Municipalities’ (UBCM) next meeting, a series of motions will be made next week at council meetings across the Boundary region to move their issues closer to the next level. Each year local governments get the...
