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What about Cottonwood Manor? By Jackie Lieuwen Houston Today
SPRING Lambs
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Julia, Jacob and Hannnah show off their four-day-old St. Croix/Dorper cross lambs: “Junior,” “Lawn,” “Suckles,” and “Speckles.” The lambs are being hand-raised and bottle-fed by the children until the weather warms up for animals to be put outside.
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Councillor Shane Brienen gave a report to Houston council about the recent Health Committee meeting, saying council needs to step in and see what they can do about Cottonwood Manor. Brienen says half the building is not in use and they are not getting strong answers about why nothing is being done. “It sounds like they don’t want to fix it because of the foundation of the building,” said Brienen. Fire Chief Jim Daigneault says that by the sounds of it, the foundation is sinking and the owners in Smithers
are not interested in repairing it. Brienen says he thinks they don’t want to throw money into a building that they feel is compromised. “But if that is the case, then maybe we need to be heading in another direction,” he said. “I think it’s time we step in and take a look and see maybe what we can do from the council side of things,” he said. Brienen says council plans to get all the facts, instead of hearing bits here and there, and then move forward from there. “If it can be fixed we’d like to see it fixed… and if it can’t, then I guess we have to start looking at other options,” he said.
RCMP outline annual priorities to Houston council By Jackie Lieuwen Houston Today
RCMP Sgt. Rose presented to Houston council last Tuesday outlining RCMP targets for the next year. Sgt. Rose says one key RCMP goal is to improve road safety, specifically targeting speeding, distracted
driving and impaired driving. With impaired driving, Sgt. Rose says their target is to have 16 formal road checks this year, ten more than last year, and to take 48 impaired drivers off the road through driving prohibitions or licence suspensions. “But I hope we
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never get to that number… because I hope that there is not that many people out there that we can actually apprehend,”
he said. Asked by Councillor Rick Lundrigan why they even have a goal of 48, Sgt. Rose says
the specific numbers are so that each RCMP member is accountable and responsible to be involved in enforcing the targets. Another RCMP priority is speeding. Sgt. Rose says they will be enforcing speeding on Highway 16, especially on the east end of town, and
their goal is to issue 216 speeding tickets this year - two per month per officer. They usually issue three to four warnings for every ticket, but now they are going to be turning a lot of those warnings into tickets, “because some people aren’t getting the message when it comes to
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speeding,” he said. Mayor Bill Holmberg affirmed Sgt. Rose for the focus on speeding and said he has noticed speeding through town is a big issue. “That was one of the directions that we encouraged you guys to go, so kudos to you,” he said. See QUOTA on Page 3
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