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Vol. 60 No. 36 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.com
Celebrity exposure:
Stars of the CBC series Heartland made a brief stop in Sicamous on Monday, Aug. 31, as part of the Cruise With A Cause tour raising funds and awareness for the Canadian Mental Health Association. Clockwise from left: Alisha Newton poses with a young fan for a photo; Graham Wardle chats with a five-year-old admirer; Shaun Johnston, Newton, Amber Marshall and Wardle sign autographs. Photos by Kelly Dick
District to establish economic development society Hired: Bill Hogan to act as liaison between council and business. By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News
The District of Sicamous has picked up a new pair of eyes to seek out economic opportunities. Bill Hogan was recently hired by the district, on a six-month contract, to oversee the creation of an economic development society.
“I’m basically a portal between the mayor’s office and council and small business…,” said Hogan. While Sicamous pays into the economic development function of the Columbia Shuswap Regional District, Mayor Terry Rysz said he and council felt the community needed its own stand-alone program – similar to what Golden, Revelstoke and Salmon Arm have – that would “concentrate on economic development and help support anybody that wished to come into our community; at the same time, market and try to promote Sicamous as a place to do business.”
There’s a great deal of creativity, it’s a matter of finding the funding for these ideas and actually being able to complete them…,” Bill Hogan Hogan says he will be looking to those neighbouring economic development soci-
eties to establish one that will work best for Sicamous. “We’re going to be looking at neighbouring communities that have had a great deal of success for some help on structuring, and following in the footsteps of some of the wins they’ve had without having to necessarily reinvent the wheel,” said Hogan. One of Hogan’s goals is to bring together and work with different people/organizations, and find ways of making great ideas reality. “There’s a great deal of creativity, it’s a matter of finding the funding for these ideas See Mayor hopes on page 2