Post Event Report: 2024 Keeping It Rural Conference in Kelowna BC (May 21-23, 2024)

From May 21-23, 2024 -- I attended (along with Cariboo RD Area "B" Director Barb Bachmeier) the Keeping It Rural Conference in Kelowna BC organized by the BC Rural Centre

During the conference, the following was covered:

* Rural Innovation

* Rural Economic Trusts/Supporting Rural Communities

* Rural Water Stewardship

* Rural Agriculture

* Rural Healthcare

* Update from BC's Parliamentary Secretary for Rural Development (Roly Russell)

* Supporting Rural Housing

* Rural Emergency Preparedness

Full background on the Conference can be viewed here 

This was my 2nd attendance at this conference while it was Director Bachmeier's 1st.  

In talking with my Cariboo RD colleagues post-Conference, there is an appetite for others to attend this conference in future years... 

Costs to attend - funded from Cariboo RD Area "D" Director Initiative Fund:

* Conference Registration: $418.94

* Hotel: $382.80

* Mileage from Williams Lake to Kelowna and return - $528.00