Elect Alan Whitman RDOS Area D Director to stop incorporation and the higher property taxes and poorer road maintenance that would result. The province does not have to hold a referendum if it decides to create Director Siddon’s proposed town of South Skaha by legislation. But you can vote on incorporation now, at this election. If elected, I will tell the Minister that preventing incorporation was the election question. For details about incorporation please see: www.alanwhitman.ca

Upper Carmi asked for fire protection years ago. They deserve a feasibility study. In the September 30th Penticton Herald Director Siddon paternalistically suggested that Upper Carmi might be annexed by Penticton even though he has never held a meeting of Upper Carmi residents to ask their opinion on that question! I am in favour of some of the revitalization concept for downtown Okanagan Falls, but only if residential property taxes are not used to pay for it. A Wine Centre focal point is an excellent idea; but the consultant’s recommendation for a one-way couplet on 7th and 8th Avenues is premature — common sense says that you don’t make one-way streets before the traffic volume requires it.

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