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Bitz honoured at potluck PAT KELLY Boundary Creek Times Reporter
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Members of the Greenwood Community Association gathered for a potluck dinner in honour of long-serving kitchen volunteer Betty Bitz, who is leaving Greenwood after 27 years. The dinner was to be a surprise for Betty, but that was difficult to organize because over the past 20 years Betty has become the go-to person in the community association whenever there was a potluck or anything else kitchen-related to be organized. Everyone told her the dinner was to celebrate all of the volunteers who serve the community association and then they asked her to organize it! Had they done anything else she would have been on to them. So on Sunday evening, after the buffet tables were laid with many wonderful dishes, Councillor Colleen Lang welcomed all to the McArthur Centre. “On behalf of the Greenwood Community Association I’d like to thank everyone for coming today and before we say grace I’d like you to raise your glasses to the reason we are here today. For Betty Bitz!” Betty moved to Greenwood 27 years ago and, to use her words, she,“became one of the kitchen helpers at the community hall in 1992.” That’s 20 years! Betty is more than just a kitchen helper though – she brought skill and talent to the job. You see, she also ran the kitchen and a cater-
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Friends gathered to bid farewell to 20-year Community Association volunteer Betty Bitz last Sunday evening. Seated Yosh Uyeyama (left) and Betty Bitz; standing Colleen Lang, Bev Sather and Dorothy Schembri
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Water declared safe for all uses Greenwood Mayor Nipper Kettle is quick to point out that it was the reservoir that was vandalized last week, and that the wells – source of “Greenwood Gold” that was judged in February to be the best tasting municipal water in the world – were not compromised. However, one resident, who had stopped by City Hall on Wednesday
to pick up some bottled water, had a different take on the situation. He told The Times that as far as he was concerned the tap in his home was his water source. On Monday afternoon a lock was discovered missing on an access hatch to the reservoir. It’s difficult to tally the total cost and inconvenience to the residents
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and businesses after the city issued a Do Not Use order warning residents not to use the water until tests were carried out to ensure that the water supply had not been tampered with. The Do Not Use order stayed in place until Thursday morning when labs test results allowed the
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