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Barnett wraps up timber supply committee review
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AUGUST 15, 2012
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Higgins Lake saved from certain demise MLA Barnett, hits ministry’s plan hard Carole Rooney
go down when aerators are taken out and landowners are left with “a big puddle” instead of a lake. Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA Donna “We pay really high taxes as Barnett has pulled the plug on the it is.... What are we paying taxes province’s removal of for?” an aerator from Higgins “With the winterLake crucial to fish kill, it would be the survival, and has also death of Higgins Lake halted similar plans in and all the wildlife that other lakes. thrives here. The eagles Higgins Lake resiwouldn’t come to fish, dent Laurie Hill says the loons wouldn’t she and her neighbours come to fish....” had “quite a surprise” Higgins Lake resi- an unwelcome one dent Tony Zadworny when the aerator was says the Fish and removed from their Wildlife Regional Office lake on Aug. 1. in Williams Lake told With no aerator him the removal was pumping in dissolved due to budget cuts. oxygen, the fish in the Four other lakes sensitive lake will likely were also slated to have die during ice-over, Hill their aerators removed, explains. he adds. “The fishing is great. Those particular We’re actually getting lakes haven’t been idennice sized fish. There’s Submitted photo tified by ministry staff, so many kids that we Mason Hicks shows but it appears likely know who caught their off his first fish they are Irish, Simon, first fish here on Higgins caught in Higgins Dewar and Skulow Lake.” Lakes in Cariboo Lake. Lower property valRegion 5, as those ues are also a concern, she notes. are lakes also co-funded by the “We bought the lakefront in Habitat Conservation Trust Fund the understanding we had a lake (HCTF), which pulled its contribto fish in. Of course if there is uting funding for Higgins. winter-kill, people won’t want to After Hill contacted her on the [purchase lake frontage].” Hill wonders if property taxes See HIGGINS… page A4 Free Press
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Chopping block... Kim Carlton demonstrated breaking bricks, here with his knee, and others with his arm at his Studio 13 Tattoos and Piercing grand re-opening on Aug. 11.
McLeod meets with mayor and council Carole Rooney Free Press
Kamloops-ThompsonCariboo MP Cathy McLeod was in 100 Mile House and hosted its municipal leaders to lunch at the Red Rock Grill, Aug. 5.
“I invited mayor and council to join me for an informal luncheon conversation. It was really an opportunity just for me to hear what’s happening and get updates.” The group talked about forestry issues, proposed riding changes, the hemp initiative and
other economic-development issues, she says. McLeod adds she also informed the municipal government members about the new Community Infrastructure Fund to ensure they are aware of it. Mayor Mitch Campsall
says the importance of ongoing funding to ensure community safety through the RCMP’s regional North District Integrated Marijuana Enforcement Team was also discussed. See McLEOD… page A4