Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 26 No. 23 June 5, 2015
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n Katie Cullen, Heidi Boileau, Beth Ralston and Richelle Zurowski perform during the Shuswap Dance Centre’s year-end recital held Saturday at the Salmon Arm Savings and Credit Union Recreation Centre.
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Motorboat ban under consideration Shuswap River: Public can offer input on ban, limits on the size of boat engines. By Richard Rolke BlaCk PrEss
Boaters could be left high and dry on parts of the Shuswap River and that is generating debate. The Regional District of the North Okanagan is currently seeking feedback on proposed regulations for the river, including no motorized vessels from south Mabel
Lake upstream to Shuswap Falls and from Trinity Valley Road upstream to the eastern end of Skookumchuck Rapids Park. “The entire process has been biased,” said Mike Steiner, who owns 1,500 feet of riverfront in Mara. “RDNO has neglected its responsibilities to users and stakeholders.” In 2010, the regional district initiated a process to develop a Shus-
wap River Watershed Sustainability Plan, and Steiner says key stakeholders were absent. “It specifically excluded advocates from the boating community, sport fishermen and certain businesses who rely on motorized use of the river and riverfront landowners who boat,” he said. However, the process is being defended by the Lower Shuswap
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Stewardship Society. “The plan was a lengthy process with lots of consultation and once concerns were identified, three working groups were formed (to develop possible strategies),” said Jean Clark, with LSSS. “In public meetings, there were hundreds of concerns about boats. See Proposal on page 2