| Monday, May 11, 2015 |
| Kick-Off of Resort Municipality Initiative Project in Golden |
| By Town of Golden |
| GOLDEN - The Town of Golden is pleased to announce the official construction start of the community’s largest Resort Municipality Initiative (RMI) project to date, the Highway 1 Corridor Enhancement. Valued at over $500,000 in this initial phase, the project includes significant landscaping improvements to the Highway 1 public boulevards adjacent to Boston Pizza on the east and Tim Horton’s on the west, with substantial completion anticipated by early July. “This project represents the essence of what the RMI program is about for us”, said Mayor Ron Oszust. “It provides us the ability to fund improvements in our community that the destination traveler has come to expect and we could otherwise never afford.” Administered jointly between town staff and its retained engineering consultant MMM Group, the construction is under the competent management of Sierra Landscaping based in the Lake Country area of the Okanagan, which intends to include some local hires on the job. “We had a fantastic visioning and participation session with tourism sector businesses in the area for this project”, said Jon Wilsgard, Chief Administrative Officer for the town. “It’s a year behind because we needed to ensure we received value for money, and it’s great to finally be at this point.” “This is one of those great projects where everyone is excited to see it happen”, said Joanne Sweeting, Marketing Manager for Tourism Golden and member of the RMI Advisory Committee. “This project will provide wonderful aesthetic improvement to the entry points of our highway corridor area, giving tourists a great initial impression of our community.” The Resort Municipality Initiative (RMI) funding program is managed by the Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training and intended to assist small, tourism-based municipalities to support and increase visitation. Since these municipalities typically have a small tax base due to their size, the demands of their tourism activity often strain the resources available to provide infrastructure and event programming. RMI funding allows these communities to dedicate resources to improving tourism-based infrastructure and amenities to attract more visitors and encourage longer stays. |
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Kick-Off of Resort Municipality Initiative Project in Golden
Monday, May 11, 2015
BC Climate Change Progress Stalled, Critics Say, Tyee
BC Climate Change Progress Stalled, Critics Say
'We know we need to do more,' says environment minister.
Lately, Premier Christy Clark has been bragging about British Columbia's record fighting climate change, but observers say that pride is misplaced.
"They're talking a lot about being a world leader in climate action," said Jens Wieting, a campaigner with the Sierra Club of BC. That's misleading considering the province's recent record on carbon emissions, he said. "We are currently moving in the wrong direction."A B.C. government press release dated April 13 trumpeted the "world-leading standard B.C. has set for climate action" and challenged other jurisdictions to meet or beat the province's standard. It noted Clark was set to speak to meetings of the World Bank-International Monetary Fund on April 17 about the B.C. carbon tax, "which sets a powerful example for the world."
But as the Sierra Club's Wieting points out, the hot air from Clark and the B.C. government comes as the province's climate change record has slipped.
While B.C. claimed to have met its interim target of a six per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 2007 levels in 2012, a year later they had gone back up by 2.4 per cent to 63 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, Wieting said. He cited recently released figures from the National Inventory of greenhouse gas sources and sinks.
"We can't afford to move in the wrong direction and see our emissions increasing," he said. "The science is clear we're running out of time."
Council Meeting for May 11th 2015, 6:00pm
The complete agenda for the Council meeting can be found at:
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Friday, May 8, 2015
Gordon Terrace School Celebrates Art, Mother's Day and raises funds for Nepal
The Annual Gordon Terrace Art Show was held on Thursday May 7th and the sale of jewelry, flowers and hand made gifts raised over a $1000 for Nepal. The day celebrated poetry, music and dancing as well as the visual arts including some work of the staff. The school in Nepal, built with funds raised by Gordon Terrace students, is currently housing families who have lost their homes due to the earthquake.
What's Happening...
Thursday May 7-10
Mt Baker School presents
The Drowsy Chaparone
a Musical
7:30pm
Key City Theatre
Cranbrook Farmer's Market
10:00am - 1:00pm
Ktunaxa Gym
Children's Festival
10:00am - 4:00pm
Mt Baker Secondary School
Cranbrook Go Go Grannies
Glitz and Glamour Luncheon
Heritage Inn
Tickets $25 Lotus Books
Quilt Show
Alliance Church
Cranbrook and District Arts Council Gallery
Tanya Lipscomb and Maddi Keiver
Sunday May 10th
Fort Steele Mother's Day Tea & Fashion Show
Treat your Mother or that Special Lady to a wonderful day at Fort Steele Heritage Town.
Fine Loose Leaf Teas, Tasty Delights, Vintage Fashion Show, Etiquette Lessons, & More!
Reservations are required.
Please call for more information ~ 250-417-6000
Location: Fort Steele Heritage Town, Coventry Opera House
Tuesday May 12
North Star Rails to Trails Society meeting
7:00pm
Heritage Inn
Thursday May 14th
Art Reception
Cranbrook and District Arts Council
Youth Arts Exhibit
7;00 -9:00pm
Cash Awards will be presented.
Telling the Truth is Dangerous in Alberta
Telling
the truth is dangerous in Alberta
Perceptions
by Gerry Warner
Catastrophic
defeats like the one that toppled the Progressive Conservative Kingdom of
Alberta Tuesday happen for a reason and that reason is often a careless
statement made in the heat of the campaign.
Just ask former Alberta Premier Jim
Prentice.
Prentice, who resigned both his leadership
of the PC Party and his seat before the votes were fully counted, was careless
with his words when he told Albertans during a CBC phone-in show March 5 to
“look in the mirror” if they wanted to know who was to blame for the province’s
fiscal plight. And it didn’t help he was telling the truth.
Albertans, after all, have been on the
prosperity wagon for quite a run – at least 20 years – thanks to all those
petro-dollars gushing out of the ground and 20 years should have been ample
time to put something away for the proverbial rainy day when oil prices crashed
and the gusher turned into a financial trickle. It wasn’t always this way. Under
the astute leadership of former Premier Peter Lougheed, the Alberta Heritage
Fund was set up as a kind of an insurance policy to protect Albertans when oil
prices dipped as they inevitably do. But somehow or the other the Heritage Fund
got frittered away and when the storm struck Albertans were left without an
umbrella. So when Prentice, who spent most of his political career in hated
Ottawa, told Albertans what they didn’t want to hear they got hot under the
collar and let him know at the ballot box.
Prentices’ comments, sincere and as
truthful as they may have been, were quickly dubbed “Blame-gate” and the
Twitter universe went wild with thousands calling for him to apologize,
including Wild Rose house leader
Shayne Saskiw, who called Prentice
“elitist, arrogant and out-of-touch with the rest of Albertans.”
Ouch! NDP leader, now Premier-elect, Rachel Notley also called on Prentice to
resign after he tried to make a joke out of the incident, saying he’d suddenly
developed an aversion to mirrors. But Prentice, perhaps displaying the
arrogance his critics accused him of, refused to resign and only dug himself in
deeper by calling the incident a “Twitter tempest.” Then when he released his
budget, taxes and fees went up for everyone, but not for corporations.
Obviously, Albertans got the message and on Tuesday they threw Prentice and his
Progressive Conservatives out after 44 years of uninterrupted power in one of
the greatest political upsets in Canadian history.
Oh, but it has happened before and I
remember it well during the 1972 BC election when the Social Credit dynasty of W.A.C.
(Wacky) Bennett was rudely thrown into the dumpster after 20 years of
uninterrupted power in Victoria. And what was the careless statement that time
that lead to political perdition? It was uttered by one of the most colorful
and controversial politicians in BC political history – “Flying Phil Gaglardi”
– who said, as only Phil could, "If
I'm lying, it's only because I'm telling the truth." Actually Phil dropped
a few more gems like that when he referred to the stench caused by pulp mills
as “the smell of money” in the air and long before junk bond king Ivan Boesky
was on the scene Gaglardi spoke of the virtue of “greed” to succeed in
business.
It’s a rare
politician that can make inflammatory statements and get away with it. Ralph
Klein could when he berated men in a homeless shelter for being homeless.
Pierre Trudeau in his immortal “just watch me” before he imposed the War
Measures Act and Bill Vander Zalm telling unemployed young men to “pick up a
shovel.”
It worked
for them, but it didn’t for Jim Prentice, who found out the hard way that the
truth really hurts.
Gerry Warner is a retired journalist and a
former politician, who has made a few inflammatory statements of his own over
time.
Compost Workshop
Mother's Day Compost
Workshop with Mike Dorian of Living Soils Solutions
With spring in full swing and summer fast
approaching, this is the time to get your hands dirty in a rich,
nutrient-filled compost pile! Join Wildsight as we welcome Mike Dorian of
Living Soils Solutions for this afternoon workshop based in the Cranbrook
Public Produce Garden. Come out and enjoy a great Mother’s Day activity for all
levels from novice to seasoned expert and every point in between. There is
always something new to learn about the composting process and how it benefits
our plants, air, and soil. Mike Dorion will touch on areas such as backyard
composting tips and tricks, compost tea, and vermiculture. We encourage you to
bring a shareable snack to enhance the feeling of community among each other on
a special day.
Mother's
Day Compost Workshop with Mike Dorian of Living Soils Solutions
Sunday
May 10th 2015 from 12pm - 4pm
Cranbrook
Public Produce Garden
Composting
has numerous benefits including:
- creating nutrient-rich soil that increases its water
holding capacity
- acts as an organic fertilizer
- keeps organic material out of landfills, reducing
greenhouse gases
- is a sustainable, renewable resource
- improves soil structure
“Our
business is about stepping away from the modern conventional ways of gardening
and bringing traditional solutions and methods back to the mainstream.
There is much more life going on under our feet than we can even imagine, and
that is what we reclaim in your soil - Natural Living Nutrients. By using high
quality composts and vermicomposts, we are able to provide a large diversity of
microbiology back into the soil food web and bring a state of natural balance
to your backyard or back forty. We strive to educate on the importance of
the life factor that belongs in all soil.” Mike Dorion, Living Soil Solutions.
“I
enjoy working with people who appreciate and want to be educated on natural
options to enhance their soil and plant life. This is where Living Soil
Solutions likes to pass on those skills and share that knowledge with our
clients. A sense of ease can be found when one understands the results that can
be achieved in a way that is healthier all around. This is when conversation
starts and people can be brought together on common ground.” Mike Dorion, Living Soil Solutions.
When
May 10th, 2015 12:00 PM through
4:00 PM
Location
Cranbrook Public Produce Garden
18th Ave North between 6th and 8th Street
Cranbrook, BC
Canada
18th Ave North between 6th and 8th Street
Cranbrook, BC
Canada
Contact
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Gordon Terrace Art Show, Mother's Day Sale and Fundraiser for Nepal, TODAY
All day TODAY 'til 6:30pm
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