Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 24 No. 30 Friday, July 26, 2013
Market News
Inside Shuswap
A10 Routes and Blues
Hike and concert series begins Aug. 2. Plus
South Shuswap A7-8 Sports A18
Chase
A24 Pulling together
Canoe journey to strengthen connections. Plus Hockey proposal A25 What’s On A26
Flyers
n Stunt rider Bruce Cook of Global FMX out of Kelowna dazzles the audience below with a daring ramp jump Friday during Summer Stomp and Burnout family events on Main Street in Sicamous. For more coverage of the event, see A3.
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The air up there
CSRD puts hold on SLIPP funding By Barb Brouwer
MARKET NEWS STAff
The Shuswap Lake Integrated Planning Process (SLIPP) has run aground again amid opposing views – at least for two months. Members of the Columbia Shuswap Regional District Board of Directors deferred a decision to allocate $50,000 from the regional feasibility study fund to explore the feasibility of continuing to fund and participate in SLIPP. Area E Rural Sicamous direc-
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tor Rhona Martin, who was absent from the July 18 meeting, supported the move in an email requesting a consultant be hired to explore the future of the project that is in the final year of a three-year pilot project. “The study would require a fresh set of eyes and would include local governments that are involved at this time; that being CSRD, the Thompson Nicola Regional District and North Okanagan Regional District,” she wrote in her June 26
email, suggesting the study indicate what SLIPP “should be or if it should be, and who and how it will be paid for.” Area D Falkland-Silver CreekRanchero director René Talbot was the first to protest. “I don’t support spending $50,000 at this point until one question is answered from the directors. Are they gonna continue to put money in and at what level?” he asked. “I think that is a more important question than spending all
that money to hire someone.” Talbot reiterated his “total support” for SLIPP and noted Area D has contributed $75,000 over the past three years. “We we do have the Salmon River and we’ve also approved $15,000 to find sites along the river in need of restoration,” he said. “We’re trying to improve the quality of the water that goes into the lake.” Noting he was “torn over the See Area directors on page 2
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