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A flag for Phyllis to fly high
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Smart meters are a contentious issue in the Okanagan as FortisBC continues to install the devices that emit radio frequency radiation on homes to convey usage information wirelessly. ...............................
It was all smiles Friday when Lake Country Food Assistance Society’s Phyllis McPherson was presented with a Canadian flag by Kelowna-Lake Country MP Ron Cannan. Hers was one of 50 flags handed out by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to deserving Canadians to mark the 50th anniversary of Canada’s official flag, the Maple Leaf. MacPherson, who has overseen operations at the food bank for more than 30 years, said she plans to fly the flag proudly at the food bank’s new larger location which the entire Lake Country community has been raising money to build, once it is up and running.
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Drivers keep getting behind the wheel when impaired RCMP say it’s never hard for them to find drivers who are intoxicated when behind the wheel of their vehicles. As well in Lake Country, RCMP report laying more charges against prolific offenders, organized crime and drug-related offences. ...............................
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▼ ALTERNATIVE APPROVAL PROCESS
Council looks at next steps after AAP results tallied Lake Country council held a special meeting last night (Tuesday, Feb. 24) at municipal hall to go over the results of the alternative approval process in its attempts to raise enough money to take part in a multi-jurisdictional plan to purchase the old CN Rail corridor running between Kelowna and Coldstream. The results of the process were not available by Lake Country Calendar press deadline Monday, but the latest information, plus comments and the next
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part of the process, will be available at www.lakecountrycalendar.com as soon as it happens. The alternative approval process had asked for electoral consent for the district to raise taxes and borrow $2.6 million to purchase the Lake Country portion of the old CN Rail corridor. If 10 per cent of the Lake Country population signed electoral response forms in the five-week process, the district wouldn’t be able to go through the loan process and would have to
come up with a different plan if it wanted to purchase the corridor. The implications of a potential no vote were not known as Lake Country and its partners have until the end of March to close the financial conditions on the tentative deal with CN Rail. The parties have a deal in principle to purchase the
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