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Council supports playground
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2015
VOL 118 NO. 23
Emanda’s story Page B8
CRAIG LINDSAY
LITTLE OAK REALTY
Grand Forks Gazette
City Council has decided to put their weight behind submitting an application for a federal legacy grant to renovate playground equipment. The decision was made during a special meeting of council on June 4. The legacy grant program is a program celebrating Canada’s 150th birthday by offering infrastructure grants to municipalities throughout the country. Projects suggested but not chosen were The Grand Forks Credit Union Rolling Loans team relayed hard and rocked even harder as they were the library basement renovations ($1.4 milto top fundraiser team during Saturday’s Relay for Life at City Park. The relay, which featured 16 teams lion), tennis court repurposing for pickle and 145 participants, has raised $31,310 so far for the Canadian Cancer Society. See more photos on page A17. Craig LIndsay photo ball ($50,000), Riverside Drive asphalt surfacing ($200,000) and the Rotary Spray Park ($400,000). The playground renovations at City Park are in the 2015 financial plan for a cost of $45,000. The city will be applying for half that as per the guidelines of the Legacy grant. Several Rotarians were in attendance at the meeting. Lynne Burch, chair of the spray park committee, told council that the Rotary Club was against receiving the Legacy Grant since it would mean delaying the spray park unto come up with solutions for the CRAIG LINDSAY til 2016 due to the guidelines of the grant application process. Delaying the deer issue. She is also planning Grand Forks Gazette project would also mean that Rotary could miss out on several other grants. speaking engagements at the li“The grant application had to be a shelf-ready project included in the brary. budget,” said Councillor Chris Thompson, who proposed the motion. “The Grand Forks has a new Wild“Essentially, anything the comonly two choices that were in the budget, and could qualify, were the spray SafeBC community coordina- munity feels they would like to park and the playground area.” tor. Brydie Todd, who hails from contribute to, they can contact Thompson said she supported the playground renovations due the fact Grand Forks, is pleased to take me,” she said. that Rotary had concerns about losing funding if the city delayed the spray over the program after completing Todd said her university backpark until 2016. “They would lose almost $70,000 in grants,” she said. her biology degree at the Universi- ground in biology will come in Thompson added that the city would have a much better chance as well ty of Victoria. Todd, who replaces handy for the job. going after the smaller amount. “I felt with the time frame the government Laurie Grant, trained for the posi“(My schooling is actually) tied gave the city we would stand a better of getting some funding in as much tion in Kamloops in May and took directly right into this,” she said. as there is only ($46 million) spread out among the western provinces,” she over officially on June 1. “My main interest (in school) was said. “To try to achieve any more than that we probably wouldn’t qualify. In Todd’s role as WildSafe coor- in environmental studies and ecolmy opinion, we have a better chance of getting the playground equipment.” dinator is to provide education to ogy so I’ve done a lot about aniThe motion passed unanimously 5-0. Councillor Michael Wirischagin reduce human-wildlife conflict in mal behaviour and habitats. This was absent as he was attending the Federation of Canadian Municipalities the community. is right up my alley as far as my (FCM) conference in Edmonton. Councillor Neil Krog was also absent. “I’m looking forward to going education.” Burch was pleased with the result as it means the Rotary Spray Park will into the schools and bringing some Todd said there are other anibe built this year. education to children in a fun and mal conflicts aside from the deer “The legacy grant application would have delayed the project for anothinformal way. I’ll be at the Farm- issue in the region such as bears, er year and put some of our major grants and funding in jeopardy because ers’ Market as much as I can as rattlesnakes, coyotes and other we would not have been able to complete the construction of the Spray well as other community events. predators. Park in 2015,” said Burch. “And as Doug Allin (CAO) pointed out at the I’ll be going door to door a little bit “It’s really important for us huspecial meeting, there is no guarantee the city would have been approved as well.” mans to manage our attractants for a grant as high as $200,000. So we are moving on with the project which Todd said she will also be and make it less desirable for bears hopefully will be completed this fall.” working with the deer committee • See WILDSAFE page A3
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