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Casual Insurance Salesperson Casual insurance salesperson needed at Kootenay Insurance Services in Invermere. Please call Kerry at 250-342-2175 or email Kerry.reilly@kootenayinsurance.ca or drop in.
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Showroom Manager Full-time Permanent
Are you a people person, with an outgoing personality? The Home Renovation Centre is looking for a combination of customer service within the showroom, along with general office skills. A working knowledge of Excel, Word and Quickbooks is required. We are a thriving organization, centered around a beautiful showroom environment. If you want to become a part of a positive, team environment and are a quick learner, we’d be happy to have you on board. Please email resume to gen@homerenovationcentre.ca or call David at 250-342-5682 for a confidential inverview.
April 25, 2014 . . . ‘Letters’ from page 7
Jumbo municipality is a farce Dear Editor: It’s important to recognize the Jumbo municipality’s money grab for what it really is. This is not just the run-of-the-mill waste of tax dollars that we all take for granted as the status quo with our semi-competent governments and their bureaucracies. This is much more and much worse than that. The BC Liberal government has arbitrarily created a vacuous facade of local government, which they are blatantly using to transfer muchneeded public money to serve the unpopular agenda of a private corporation. This is shameless political farce. In Canada, we elect those who hold political office — they are not appointed by anyone. They answer to us through the ballot box and they spend our money according to a budget for which they are held accountable to us through the ballot box. This farce of a council is nothing of the sort. It is an abuse of the fundamental values of our society. The councillors of the Mountain Resort Municipality of Jumbo do not even have the token vote of a single token resident to give them
DISTRICT OF INVERMERE
914 – 8th Avenue, PO Box 339 Invermere, B.C. V0A 1K0 Tel: (250) 342-9281 • Fax: (250) 342-2934
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Please apply directly to Brent Taylor, Director of Golf, the Springs Course Brent.Taylor@radiumresort.com Online at www.radiumresort.com/employment/ Or in person at the Springs Golf Course Training provided. Golf privileges. Staff meal discounts. Radium Hot Springs, BC • 800.667.6444 • Brent Taylor 250.347.6220
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The Council has directed staff to prepare permit applications under the Provincial Wildlife Act to cull deer within the boundaries of the District of Invermere. The intent is to target aggressive deer and neighbourhoods that have high concentrations of deer. The permit that the District is considering to submit will include the following: • To apply on an annual basis for a deer cull permit; • To cull up to and not exceed 30 deer per annum; • That staff are not to exceed $30,000 in costs per annum; and • That the process be included in the District annual operational plans. The District is notifying all residents within the District of Invermere that written public comments will be received until May 9th, 2014. Comments must be submitted in writing from residents of Invermere. Submissions must include the following: • Name; • Mailing or e-mail address; • Phone number; and • Address of property within the District of Invermere boundaries. Written submissions can be sent to the following: District of Invermere PO Box 339, Invermere, BC V0A 1K0 e-mail: info@invermere.net Fax: 250-342-2934
some legitimacy. They were not elected for their principled positions or opinions; they were handselected and appointed for their compliance. Let’s not even pretend that anyone opposed to the corporate agenda behind the political facade was ever considered for the job. This council and those who put them there disrespect the essence of our democracy with every meeting and every motion, and now with this budget. Let’s get one thing clear — this issue is not about being for or against Jumbo Glacier Resort. This is about being for or against the fundamental principles for which Canadians fought and died. Those very principles are the torch handed us to hold high. Here in our heartland communities is where we do that before we ever take it to distant lands. If supporting the development of the Jumbo resort means selling out Canadian democracy, then the cost is far greater than a mere $1.2 million. We should not pay that price; it’s far too high. Chris Conway Radium Hot Springs . . . ‘Watershed’ from page 3 Wednesday, May 7th’s tour moves north, as Oliver Egan, manager of Edible Acres Organic Farm, will show guests the irrigation system drawn from Windermere Creek and discuss the impact of water quality on the farm’s organic certification. On the morning of Thursday, May 8th, and again on Sunday, May 11th, Kirsten Harma will lead a pontoon boat tour of Lake Windermere and describe lake ecology and water quality testing procedures. Thursday afternoon’s tour will journey to the Paddy Ryan Lakes, one source of Invermere’s water. District of Invermere staff will explain how land use in the upper watershed affects the area’s water quality. Friday, May 9th’s tours will migrate further downstream. In the morning, Bill Thompson will provide a Stream Flow Measuring Demonstration at the Spillimacheen Dam and Generating Station where BC Hydro regulates adequate flow to preserve fish and aquatic habitat. In the afternoon, Mark Read and Gerry Wilkie will discuss stewardship of the Forester Creek watershed that supplies water for the village of Radium Hot Springs. On the afternoon of Saturday, May 10th, people who have participated in four or more of the Track Through Our Watershed Series events are invited to a free gathering at Pynelogs Cultural Centre to discuss their learning and to enter a prize draw. Registration on-line at www.wingsovertherockies. org or by telephone at 250-342-2473.