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Canfor projects By Jackie Lieuwen Houston Today
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Silverthorne students Allisa, Kloe, Sydney, Nevada and Maaike hold the youth talking stick at the National Aboriginal Day event at Jamie Baxter Park last Friday. The event was organized by the Houston Dze L K’ant Friendship Centre and all of the Silverthorne Elementary School attended. See page 22 for more photos.
Canfor is seeking public input about involvement in a community project. Lars Hobenshield, Houston Planning Forestry Supervisor at Canfor, was at the town council meeting last week Tuesday to present about Canfor certification and get ideas of things Canfor can financially support. “What’s a project that will help Houston attract residents and improve the quality of life?” Hobenshield asked council. He added that Canfor is looking for a project like the Leisure Facility, for which they guaranteed $25,000 a year for four years - a four-year term that is now finished. “Talking with management, there’s probably not a big appetite [to donate] unless something comes up that catches their attention,” Hobenshield said. T h a n k i n g Hobenshield for coming, Mayor Holmberg said council would get
back to Canfor with ideas from council, after they sit down with staff to discuss it. Councillor Rick Lundrigan said one project might be the Four Seasons Park and the baseball diamond, which would be a multi-year project. “We certainly appreciate you being here and your willingness to talk to us about what you can do for the community,” said Mayor Holmberg. “You are a big part of our community and you spend a lot of money as far as tax dollars... we appreciate you being in the community so for you to come and volunteer more, that speaks volumes,” he said. Canfor is also looking for Public Advisory Group (PAG) members, who advise licensee’s about how to manage sustainable forest management criteria. Vacancies include reps from fisheries, motorized recreation, environment, mining and First Nations. The next meeting is July 3, 5:30 to 9 p.m. at the Canfor Houston Office.
Houston council picks paving priorities for 2013 By Jackie Lieuwen Houston Today
The District of Houston is paving part of Hamblin Frontage Road and 11th Street this year. With a $100,000 budget for paving,
council discussed their options at the council meeting last week Tuesday. They considered seven roads in need of repairs (Butler Avenue, Copeland Avenue, and 9th, 10th and 11th Street, etc.) and eight
roads in need of patch work (CN crossing on Tweedie Avenue, North Nadina Road, 5th Street and Tweedie, adjacent 3131 Hagman Crescent, etc.). Tony Edwards, Interim Director of Engineering &
Development Services, suggested they do all the patchwork and choose one or two bigger repair projects. “It’s not wise to try to spread money around… do a proper job and you won’t have to deal with it again,”
he said. Edwards said the District is obligated to do patching because some of the pavement damage was caused by the District of Houston doing projects such as water main repairs.
“ H a m b l i n [Frontage Road] has a lot of traffic on it and clearly it’s an important commercial frontage road for the municipality so we thought it should get high attention,” said Edwards.
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Edwards said that Butler Avenue was another road they considered a priority, but it needs a lot of work on both the asphalt and the curb/ gutters. See PAVE on Page 3
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