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...
Trails project a go despite defeat of AAP
It’s official. The financing proposal for the continued construction of paths around the city of Grand Forks, B.C. has been defeated by the local residents. But at their last meeting, city council approved an alternate plan to be able to match the funding from the federal government in order to proceed with the project as...
Grand Forks council faced with extra costs after the defeat of financing proposal
With the defeat of the proposal for a long-term lease-purchase financing option to purchase garbage equipment and an electrical truck, Grand Forks city council expressed worries over the stability of their electrical utility services. An alternate approval process (AAP) for the financing of the electrical truck was wrapped ...
Atamanenko uses break to talk to constituents
BC Southern Interior Member of Parliament Alex Atamanenko is concerned that the federal Conservative party is heading for a spring election as a result of the closing of parliamentary sessions until March. But Atamanenko will be using the break to take time and meet with his constituents.The public is invited to meet MP...
Looking back at 2009 - area D director Irene Perepolkin
Irene Perepolkin is the area D director (rural Grand Forks) for the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary.As this is my first term as Director there was a lot to learn about the position and about the workings of politics. I sat on many committees throughout the year representing my area. The Boundary economic development ...
Christina Lake year in review - a director's perspective
Grace McGregor is the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) representative for area C – Christina Lake. In this article, McGregor give a review of activities in her area. 2009 has been another busy year for Christina Lake as plans were made and work started on the Christina Lake Living Art Centre, the solar aquatic ...
