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Volume 119 No 34 PM # 400121123
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Thursday, August 21, 2014
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Road construction goes out to tender
Cache Creek Council gave staff the go ahead to call for the Maclean Crescent road reconstruction bids at Monday night’s Council meeting. “Time is definitely of the essence,” McElhanney Consulting’s Derrick Fabbro told Council at the Aug. 18 meeting as he displayed the final plans. Although winter seems like a long ways off, the bid process will take weeks and paving can’t be done once the weather cools off. Council agreed with Fabbro to shorten the contract from 12 to eight weeks and to lengthen the work days, but they were less than pleased when he told them they might have to leave the road in a gravelled condition until it could be finished in the Spring. An alternate to that was to tender the job now and start it in the Spring. “We want to try and get it done this year but not at all costs,” said Coun. Wyatt McMurray.
HDI still looking at core samples
Imagination and paint (Above) Gaby, Mary Grace and Bronwyn work on their masterpieces at WRAPS’ Kids Art Camp in Ashcroft. (Below) Kaeli makes an impression. The art aspect of the camp was led by instructor and artist Jo Petty (right) who coached the young artists along.
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Mine exploration at 16 Mile is still on hole while HDI Constantia pours over the samples they took out of the ground this year, but they expect to continue to the next stage in 2015, said the company’s Sr. Manager Myke Clark. Clark was asked at the Aug. 18 Cache Creek Council meeting whether the Neskonlith Band’s recent notice of eviction to the Ruddock Creek Mining Operation, half owned by Imperial Metal, or the Shuswap Tribal Council’s recommendation to all of its members that all mining activities be considered halted would have an effect on the Maggie Mine operation. “That’s a very good question,” said Clark. “And a very difficult one for me to answer.” What happened at Mt. Polley was unfortunate, he said. It will change the way BC mines operate in the future. He declined to comment on any of the company’s talks with the Bonaparte Indian Band, but did say “We haven’t been told by anyone to stop doing what we’re doing.” He added that it didn’t mean the issue couldn’t be discussed. Mayor John Ranta offered the Village’s assistance “if there’s a way through our relationship with the band” that it could mediate.
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