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December 30, 2015
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Year in Review Special people and what they did for Lake Country marked 2015. .........................
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JUMP IN…The Oyama volunteer fire department and the Oyama Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion will be holding the annual Polar
Bear Dip at noon on on New Years Day in Wood Lake, across the road from the Oyama Hall. Sign-up and pledge sheets are available at the Legion, Oyama General Store, and Woodsdale General Store. The pledges are in support of the Legion and BC Children’s Hospital. Hot chocolate will be available to everyone afterward, at the Legion.
CN Corridor acquisition top 2015 deal for district KEVIN PARNELL
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The acquisition of the old CN Rail corridor by Lake Country marks the most important event in what was a newsworthy year for the district which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2015. Mayor James Baker, who’s council had to go to Lake Country electors twice in 2015 to seek approval to borrow the necessary funds to help purchase the CN corridor—in a failed alternative approval process before a landslide
victory in a referendum—says the acquisition of the corridor sets the table for Lake Country’s future. “I think it was a big step forward for us because as much as there was a negative to the purchase, we really are looking forward by that purchase,” said Baker, in a year-end interview with the Lake Country Calendar. “It will be an asset to the community and the whole valley for years to come.” As Baker said, the year started with a bang with the failed AAP, where more than 10 per cent
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of the community signed a petition against the purchase of the CN corridor, which ultimately cost Lake Country $2.6 million as well as the $2.6 million it received from Kelowna. After the AAP failed, council decided to move to referendum, at about a $15,000 cost, and the borrowing bylaw was passed with 75 per cent of voters in favour of the move. “This was the biggest issue for Lake Country last year,” said SEE DISTRICT A3
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