AGRICULTURAL ISSUES
KEREMEOS KARATE CLUB
MP Atamanenko hosts Food Sovereignty forum See page 10
Kyukoshin Karate all about personal discipline See page 9
INTERSECTION REVISITED Work crews return to Seventh and Seventh See page 3
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Vol.15 Number 13
The Review, Thursday, March 29, 2012
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Serving the communities of Keremeos, Cawston, Okanagan Falls and Kaleden
Caught and fined in Hedley Vigilant residents work to stop illegal dumping Contributed
Photo by Steve Arstad
Keremeos Village Council proclaimed April as Cancer month at the Mar. 19 council meeting. Carrol Neville of the Canadian Cancer Society is shown (left) holding the proclamation with Kermeos Mayor Manfred Bauer.
On the afternoon of March 21, up Rogers Road along 20 Mile Creek, two Hedley residents were seen dumping six or more garbage bags of garden waste and litter. They were asked by another resident to stop and were reminded that what they were doing is illegal dumping. Even though they were told about the monthly garden waste pick-ups by RDOS, they continued to unload their garbage in the wilderness protesting innocence and ignorance. The Conservation Authority was advised, issued fines and ensured that the mess was cleaned up by those that had dumped their garbage. These individuals, as well as anyone else who does not care
about the environment, should remember that not only will it cost them but that they should think about what illegal dumping does, as in these examples: - Damages wildlife and their habitat, soil, foliage, etc. - Introduces foreign and rampant-growth foliage - Reduces the beauty of natural areas, jeopardizing tourism - Reduces surrounding real estate prices - Allows people to access your personal information from personal garbage - Increases the potential for fire which puts lives and homes at risks - Increases the potential for disease - Degrades water quality - Causes injury to pets, residents, visitors, and children - Costs taxpayers money
Open Door Group to deliver a new job placement program in Keremeos Contributed Open Door Group, a non-profit organization with a long history of delivering employment services to British Columbians, is offering a 10-week Employment Program starting April 23 at their new office in Keremeos, located at 427 7th Avenue. Job Options BC is a free employment program aimed at helping unemployed British Columbians gain the skills, confidence and experience needed to find work in their local community. The program is split into two five week programs. The first half of the program consists of in-class ses-
sions where participants explore career planning and the second half of the program is focused on job placement in the local community. During the first half of the program there will be four stages of career development. The first is self-awareness and understanding in which students will explore and identify their career interests. Stage two will then move onto career possibilities, where students will discover where they best fit in the working world. The third stage has students creating a career plan and the stage four has them following through on that plan. This may include short term certificate training such as Food Safe and First Aid. The second half of the program is all about job
placement. The students will work with a job developer through Open Door Group who will help place them in paid work experience or a job. To qualify for Job Options BC you must be a B.C resident, legally entitled to work in Canada, be 18 years of age or older, unemployed, not a student and not eligible for EI benefits. This includes people who have been entrepreneurs, people who have not had enough hours for EI, or people want to get back in the workforce who have been looking and having difficulty getting a job. For more information or to apply for the program please call 1-866-377-3670 or email joboptions@ opendoorgroup.org