Thursday, February 23, 2012

WL News - Feb 23rd edition

1) Duncan Barnett from the Cariboo Cattlemen's Association expresses 'disappointment' at recent visit by Steve Thomson - Minister of Natural Resources Operations - read here

2) Workshop planned for Woodland Dr residents for future water services for that area - read here

3) 'Status Quo' for Zellers in Williams Lake - read here
4) Operation: Red Nose presentations - read here
5) Cariboo Regional District submits five resolutions for May's North Central Local Gov't Association AGM in 100 Mile House - read here
6) Local MLA's Donna Barnett (Cariboo-Chilcotin.. BC Liberal)/Bob Simpson (Cariboo-North.. Ind) speak out on BC Budget 2012 - read here


7) Money distributed for Environmental Assessment process for Spanish Mountain Gold mine project near Likely - read here
8) WL Mayor Kerry Cook breathes new life into previously defeated grant-in-aide application from local Dry Grad Committee - read here

Editor's Note - Commentor 'Jim' is not likely to be happy on this development... there is a political danger that the City/CRD could see a flood of other groups whose grant-in-aide applications were rejected and want reconsideration as well, given the precedent that Mayor Cook proposes that be set in the case of the Dry Grad 2011 Grant-in-Aide application


Update at 10:47am - Lots of discussion on this topic on the Welcome to Williams Lake Facebook page which you can read here

9) And speaking of Mayor Cook - check out her weekly column this week where she speaks about compassion - read here

Editor's Note - I was a little disappointed with this column.  The column itself didn't talk about what WL Council was up to.  Hopefully next week, she'll return to weekly columns on what Council is up to

10) Liz Twan (Tribune columnist) looks at the work local ranchers are up to - read here
11) Carole Ann Cole of Toronto looks at the movie 'Pink Ribbons' - read here
12) Finally - as I said I would - Tribune runs my letter to the editor calling upon the Cariboo Regional District Board to reject a 'Social Planning' Function for the Cariboo Regional District - read here

2 comments:

Jim said...

You are dead on there Steve.
Since when is giving taxpayers dollars to organizations that DO NOT need it OK? Since when is it OK for them to simply bank it when many organizations are in desperate need?
If they require it I have ZERO issue giving them funding...they do not need it this year PERIOD.
Funny how this is never mentioned in any of their letters in the paper or various web-sites.
When you use up you $50k in the bank then come back for more, until then have fun!

Anonymous said...

Since when does anyone tell the whole story? There is one side, the other side and then there is the truth.