News

Goodbye numbered mailboxes. Hello street addresses.

A meeting of unionized Canfor-Vavenby workers on Sunday Feb. 6, overwhelmingly endorsed arrangements with the company designed to the local sawmill operation.

Clearwater RCMP Detachment’s new cadet arrived from Regina five months ago and is settling in nicely to his new role. Tyson Bruns, his wife Jenifer, and their two small children came from Langley. It will be another month before he is fully trained and on his own. We now have a very junior detachment, with the senior constable having just less than four years service, followed by a 2 1/2 year, 1 1/2 year, and a five months member.

VICTORIA - Nominations for the Province’s highest recognition of excellence and lifetime achievement - the Order of British Columbia honor for 2011 - are now being accepted.

A suggestion that Clearwater and District Chamber of Commerce should drop its information desk at Wells Gray Infocenter didn’t get much support during a chamber meeting last Tuesday evening.

Thompson-Nicola Regional District has purchased a parcel of land including the upper bench of the Louis Creek Industrial Area for the building of an eco-depot. An eco-depot is an improved way of managing solid waste by allowing users to separate recyclables and reusable materials from the waste stream before disposing the residual in a fully enclosed disposal building. It offers a “one stop drop” for all waste and recyclable materials.

Premier Gordon Campbell has appointed Kamloops-North Thompson Liberal MLA Terry Lake to lead a task force - which will include representation from the British Columbia Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BCSPCA) and Union of B.C. Municipalities - to review the circumstances related to the reported sled-dog killings in the Whistler area and to make recommendations to prevent such an incident from occurring again.

District of Clearwater should help pay to bring Dr. Jason Ohler to Clearwater to talk about digital literacy, Shelley Sim told town council during its Feb. 1 meeting.

VICTORIA - The B.C. government is investigating its third incident of problems with diagnostic medical imaging, this time at a hospital in Comox.

Wells Gray Community Forest Corporation’s main priority this year is salvaging beetle-damaged pine in Clearwater’s watershed.