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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2012
VOL 115 NO. 47
page 14
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Tea-ing off at the Lake Roseanne Brewer, a volunteer for the Christina Lake Health-Care Auxiliary, pours water into a tea pot at the auxiliary’s Fall Into Winter Tea event at the Christina Lake Community Hall last Saturday afternoon. There was a bake table, 50/50 and a silent auction, and of course, tea and goodies. Proceeds went to support health facilities. For more photos, go to the Gazette website, www.grandforksgazette.ca.
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Grand Forks forms its own downtown business group
CASSANDRA CHIN Gazette Reporter
A downtown business association has been created with a vision on how local businesses can improve the downtown core. Business owners and managers of downtown Grand Forks gathered to discuss the formation of a downtown business association on Nov. 13. Carole Lajoie, owner of Value Drug Mart, acted as a moderator to facilitate discussion on the future of downtown Grand Forks and what direction the group would like to head. “The thing that became clear was that we really needed a downtown association and a group that is focused on what goes on in downtown Grand Forks,” she said. “We started by defining what we felt was downtown Grand Forks. At (an earlier) meeting, we also discussed what issues we’d like to address and one of issues was that we needed Grand Forks to look better and appealing for people who come into town.” The defined area is from 72nd Avenue to 75th Avenue, from Riverside Drive over to 5th Street, with a small portion of Central Avenue to 6th
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Street. “We want to put together a core group of people who would be interested in being on a board or advisory capacity,” Lajoie pointed out. “We’re starting this as a volunteer downtown business association.” Lajoie explained she attended a meeting hosted by the Economic Development Advisory
Committee (EDAC) last August. “The EDAC brought in Barb Haynes from the Penticton Business Improvement Association to speak to merchants who had businesses downtown and to talk about what they are doing in Penticton because they have an active group of businesses,” she explained. “There wasn’t a lot of people there but the group of us that were there, and were motivated by what we heard, got together in September to talk about what we wanted to see in Grand Forks.” There were two meetings that followed the Haynes forum, but Lajoie noted it was apparent in the second meeting that the group had to do a better job at communicating with the businesses downtown. “We want a group that is specifically focused on issues that affect us downtown. That’s our mandate,” Lajoie went on to say. “I’d love to see the day when downtown Grand Forks is a happening place and people want to come downtown because Grand Forks is a really cool little community with lots of neat businesses, and services, and interesting things going on.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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