Grand Forks Gazette, October 15, 2014

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Nominations for November’s elections closed Friday. Candidates will vie for regional district, school district, and city councilor and mayoral seats. Following is a list of candidates, presented as voters will see on the ballot Nov. 15.

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Following presentation of the 2014 Boundary Communities Vital Signs report, those who attended the launch were asked to share thoughts with their neighbour in the next chair. What may have surprised you about the finding of the 2014 Vital Signs Report? Where do see you might be able to help? What excites or energizes you into action? Pat Kelly photo

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“We need to create local employment opportunities that support a living wage—too many people have to go outside the area for work, and many of the jobs that exist locally are minimum wage and not sufficient to meet basic needs.” – citizen feedback reported in the Boundary Communities Vital Signs 2014 report. A year in the making, the 2014 Vital Signs report on the Boundary was released a week ago Tuesday, Oct. 7 at gallery 2 in Grand Forks. Vital Signs is a community check-up that measures the vitality of the communities, identifies significant trends, and supports action on issues that are critical to quality of life. The release date was timed to coincide with the launch of 25 other community reports across the country as part of the Vital Signs Canada (www.vitalsignscanada.ca/) program. This is the second report done on the Boundary region; the first was done in 2009. Christina Thompson, chair of the Phoenix Foundation of the Boundary Communities, welcomed approximately 50 people to the launch and introduced the 11 members of the steering committee responsible for the update over the past year. The project manager was Karly Olsen. During that year there was community con-

sultation through town hall meetings and youth forums. This helped inform the creation of a survey that went out in August in which citizens were asked to rate each of 11 issue areas on a fivepoint scale and to identify their top three priorities. There were 330 surveys completed; up about 100 from the 2009 survey. One of the main uses of the report is to inform the grants committee of the Phoenix Foundation of the Boundary Communities. According to committee chair George Longden, the local foundation distributed about $45,000 in 2014, and has been able to grant $387,722 in the 17 years that the foundation has been around. “This year we actually left money on the table because we didn’t have enough people apply for grants that were directed to specific endowments,” Longden said. “So we are looking for grant applications in all 11 of the areas of Vital Signs.” He announced a grant-writing workshop that will be held in the second or third week of January. It is hoped that this will result in quality grant applications that fit within the areas identified in the Vital Signs report. Doug Lacey, who is the vice-president of the foundation board, explained that a day-long workshop a year ago helped shape the vision of where they wanted the foundation to be by 2018. A new strategic plan was developed, which

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CITY OF GRAND FORKS – COUNCILLOR (elect six) BUTLER Julia DICK Lorraine EBURNE-STOODLEY Zak FAUSTEN Richard HAMMETT Chris KOROLEK Cathy KROG Neil MARK Baun O’DOHERTY Patrick PODMOROFF Larry ROSS Colleen SMITH Gary TAYLOR Teresa THOMPSON Christine VAN EWYK Monique WIRISCHAGIN Michael

AREA D KENDEL Bob PEREPOLKIN Irene RUSSELL Roly Grace McGregor has been acclaimed in AREA C. AREA E is seeing a race between Bill Bosovich, Vicki Gee and incumbent Bill Baird. SCHOOL DISTRICT 51 Area D (elect one) REID David RICH Valerie Alice City of Grand Forks (elect two) HARSHENIN Kenneth JEPSEN Katie MASSEY Jaime REZANSOFF Teresa Cindy Strukoff was unopposed and retains her seat as Area C representative on the school board. Also unopposed and claiming seats in Area E are Rose Zitko, Cathy Riddle and Mark Danyluk.

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