Lake Country Calendar, January 09, 2013

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January 9, 2013

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Lake Country dog owners banding together KEVIN PARNELL STAFF REPORTER

Faith columnist Jim Taylor says human babies aren’t perfect and neither was Jesus as an infant, so we should not expect perfection. ...............................

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Property values dropped slightly in the last year, according to the B.C. Assessment Authority. Annual assessment notices are going out in the mail this week. ...............................

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Lake Country residents will get an opportunity to add their input into preparations for the next federal budget when the minister responsible for B.C. visits later this month. ...............................

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Dogs in Lake Country now have a voice and should soon start to see some improvements in their quality of life. The newly formed Lake Country Dog Owners’ Association is up and running and has signed up 40 new members thanks to a successful membership drive. The group is the first of its kind in Lake Country and has several goals including advocating for more public space for dogs where they are allowed to be off-leash. “We thought there was a need for educating the general public about what is good dog ownership so a small group of us got together and applied for non-profit status,” said Lake Country Dog Owners’ Association treasurer Shannon Paul-Jost. “We wanted to get a stronger voice for dog owners in Lake Country.” Five residents have been elected to sit on the board while many new members signed up for the group, during its membership drive. The new group is being seen as a positive one at the district of Lake Country. “The district is quite happy that there is a formalized Dog Owners Association in Lake Country,” said Steve Schaffrick, Lake Country’s director of community services. “I see this group working quite nicely with our Parks and Recreation Advisory

Committee to help improve our already existing dog friendly parks and trail areas and ultimately finding a permanent home for our offleash dog park that is currently on school district property that the district leases. This group will also be able to help educate the community on proper dog ownership etiquette when it comes to the use of public lands.” Currently, there are just three official offleash dog parks in Lake Country—the school district property on Woodsdale Road, land on Bottom Wood Lake Road at Wood Lake and

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WE WANTED TO GET A STRONGER VOICE FOR DOG OWNERS IN LAKE COUNTRY. Shannon Paul-Jost

in Carr’s Landing, at the north end of Coral Beach. Paul-Jost said access to water is paramount, especially in the hot summer months. “We’d like to work with the district to get some sort of secure space that is a bit larger where we can run our dogs that has some access to water,” she said. “Some of the spaces for dogs are too small and there is no access to SEE DOGS A3

DOUG FARROW/CONTRIBUTOR

THE NEWLY FORMED Lake Country Dog Owners’ Association is up and running and has signed up 40 new members thanks to a successful membership drive. It’s aim is to support owners of dogs like Suki (above), who was out catching a frisbee in the snow on the weekend.

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