Local RCMP are warning residents that there have been several reports of break and enters in the Rock Creek area in the past couple of months.
RCMP Corporal Kevin Christensen told the Times, “Please keep an eye out for your neighbour’s property and if you are going to be away make sure you have neighbours checking in on your property.” Police also advice installing motion lights, and to make sure you lock all your doors and windows.
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On Sept. 21, Pastor Michael McPherson, the new pastor for the Seventh-day Adventist congregation in the Rock Creek/ Midway/Westbridge area, met with the local congregation. He was recently appointed to serve this region as well as congregations in Osoyoos and Oliver.
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A public meeting of those interested in establishing fire protection in the Kettle Valley/ Rock Creek area was held Monday night at West Boundary Elementary. Between 60 and 70 people came to hear Midway Mayor Randy Kappes and village fire chief Walter Osellame update the public on the expansion of service proposal and answer their questions.
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Bylaw enforcement throughout the regional district may be about to get some teeth. At the moment, in many municipalities in the RDKB, the only recourse for enforcing fines imposed for bylaw infractions is to go to court, an expensive and timeconsuming process. Under the new system— recommended in a staffreport to the RDKB—although a fine could be disputed, if upheld, it could not be ignored as failure to pay it would result in the debt being registered as a lien against the disputant’s property.
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Last Thursday, Oct. 3 was designated as Orange Day at BCSS in acknowledgment of Indian residential schools. Posters were put up in the school by the BCSS Spirit Club as a way to raise awareness about those aboriginal children who were sent to Indian Residential schools between the 1870s and 1990s.
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Administrator Robin Dalziel reported on a meeting he had held with CUPE union staffon Oct. 9 when the city’s desire to contract out small, unique projects had been discussed. “They didn’t have any diffculty with that but wanted their rep to be notified when this is done,” Dalziel said. “Just to clarify—these are small projects—they are not meant to replace anybody’s working job—simply things that are needed to be done around the city.”
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Canvassers in favour of decriminalizing marijuana were in front of McMynn’s grocery on Saturday collecting some of the 500,000 signatures needed from across the province to trigger a referendum on the issue.
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The bandshell in Greenwood’s City Park was taken down last week. City works crew used a backhoe to demolish the structure. According to Doreen McLean of the Greenwood Museum, the bandshell was built with a $10,000 grant that Board of Trade president-of-the- day Merlyn Phelps was instrumental in acquiring.
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Local artist Heather Hollingsworth has a passion for art and her dedication to that passion has been recognized as one of her paintings was recently accepted into a juried show in Vancouver. Her piece entitled “Heavy Mist at Hampshire Ranch” was one of 51 selected out of 350 entries in the fourth Federation of Canadian Artists Annual International Representational Show.
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Midway’s own Bored Room Bistro was honoured as one of the Boundary’s best at the Small Business and Community Awards event last week, taking home the award for Family Friendly Business. The Boundary Country Regional Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with Community Futures Boundary put on the event Oct. 24.
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Emcon Services Inc. has come through in a big way for site work for the Rock Creek Community Medical Society. The society’s parking lot needed some TLC and Emcon was generous enough to supply some donated gravel to build it up a bit and then grade and pack it. The very next day, Emcon was back with their bridge crew and Stinger truck delivering 12 concrete barricades to protect anyone from slipping offthe banks at the clinic.
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Greenwood Council has approved $2,000 in start-up money for the Greenwood Economic Development Committee project.
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With no provincial funding available until August 2014 at the earliest, Phoenix Mountain Ski Hill is hoping for support from local governments to help operate for the upcoming season. Phoenix has been around since 1969 offering a local ski