WILLIAMS LAKE – On Sept.4, 2014, the Mount Polley mining facility was inspected by staff from the Ministry of Environment and was found to be out of compliance with the Environmental Management Act (EMA) because effluent was still discharging from the tailings storage facility into Hazeltine Creek. Today, a ministry statutory decision-maker sent an advisory […]
Archives for 2014
Council report with Pat Hampson
Committee September 8th, 2014 Review of Land Use Procedure Bylaw 1147- Notification of Development Applications: Under the Local Government Act, Council shall notify all properties within a minimum of 30 meters of a development application. At present Land Use Procedures Bylaw 1147 specifies that all properties within 30 meters of such application shall be notified […]
Do you smell peanuts ?
Bad enough – now I am shedding Photo by Doris Lancaster on Peanut Pond A turtle shell is bone – many bones joined tightly together. The shell bones are covered by horny plates call scutes. It is the scutes that are replaced from underneath shedding the outer layers.
First quarter financial results for BC
Provincial debt The provincial debt, including a $200 million forecast allowance, is projected to total $63.7 billion by the end of the fiscal year – $991 million lower than the projection in Budget 2014. This reduction in debt is due to a combination of a lower 2013/14 ending balance and anticipated changes in the fiscal […]
Oliver police report
On September 4, 2014 at 20:36 Hours Oliver RCMP responded to a report of a vehicle fire in an orchard off Sumac St, near Rd 5. Oliver members had tried to stop and then locate the same truck, a White Ford F350 pickup which had been reported stolen earlier in the evening and had taken […]
New collections manager* now on duty
The Oliver and District Heritage Society has recently welcomed a new member to their team. Julianna Weisgarber, of Prince George, BC, started as the Collections Manager on Tuesday, September 2nd. Julianna (pictured above) will be working closely with the Community Heritage Manager to ensure that the artifacts and archive documents stored at the Museum and […]
Great to have a shoe store
Mayor Janice Perrino won’t seek re-election
Mrs. Perrino has served for two terms as Mayor of Summerland. She had been a councilor prior to that. She presently is the Chair of the Okanagan Similkameen Regional Hospital District and works as the Executive Director of the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation. Perrino says she will devote all her time and effort in […]