Your Funding and The Impact It Had In the North Thompson We wish to express our sincere gratitude for your support in helping to create what we hope will be a lasting legacy in the heart of Barriere. The following pages contain a few of the highlights, and a brief overview of what your funding helped us achieve in our community garden this spring and summer and the ripples that happened as a result. - A picture says a thousand words……….
Where to Begin?? “Once upon a time”…… there was a small rural community who had suffered the stressors of the Mountain Pine Beetle impact, the McLure Wildfire, a struggling cattle industry, aging demographics and a small group that wanted to recreate a community garden that had very nearly been forgotten. This little town was just in the process of creating a local government and the little group had the honour of being the first piece of “non-housekeeping” business for the new District of Barriere. The creation of the new District gave the group the ability to be sponsored for funding from UBCM to build a new garden shed, shaded seating area and programming for the summer. What follows is the realization of our dream……….