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A Crowfoot accident had a rollover of a ATV that resulted in broken ribs, was responded to by the RCMP, First Responders, BC Ambulance and Search and Rescue. The question was; is there a need to have better coordination as to who shows up to these accidents.
Wendy Byhre has been hired as the tourism marketing coordinator for Shuswap tourism. Wendy has a degree in tourism management from Vancouver Island University and a diploma in Outdoor Recreation from Camosun College. She will be responsible for all marketing and promotions for Shuswap Tourism.
Columbia Shuswap Film Commission Grant - $15,000 from the ministry of community sport and cultural development. This funding will support location scouting and updates to the image databank of the Shuswap region. It will also provide funding to create a promotional package for the Locations Expo in Los Angeles.
August 4-27th a horror movie was filmed in Falkland by Enderby Productions, based in Los Angeles.
Area “F” Grant in Aid was given in the amount of $5,000 to the Imai Park Foundation. They will be using the money, for the up keep costs of maintaining the Imai Ball Park grounds.
Purchase of Firefighting apparatus’s was okayed; with 2 purchases of mini-pumpers for Anglemont and Celista VFD. The cost will be $198,846 plus taxes per truck. Fort Garry Trucks (from Manitoba?) will be constructing these pumpers. There were 4 bidders, with prices ranging from $209,985 to $192,215 however, the Fort Garry bid was $196,846 which is not the lowest bid but the lowest did not include all the extra options that Fort Garry did. The total purchases for all the other CSRD apparatus’s (six in total)has seen savings of $330,000 in total because of group purchasing.
There were two MPS (both Conservative) from the CSRD area that spoke to their work for the area. MP for the Kooteney Columbia is David Wilkes. Colin Mayes; from the Shuswap Okanagan talked about the highways in the Okanagan Shuswap, RCMP and New Horizons program (for helping seniors). I asked about the lack of support from DFO on developments on the lake. He suggested that staff has not made applications to the DFO that he knew of, in the future if there is a problem, that we go through the CSRD -CAO. I mentioned as well that I understood that DFO was understaffed. The MP said there are always problems in government departments with staffing, with rarely a case where they are not underfunded or understaffed.
Leah Blain has been contracted to help the CSRD communicate better. Communication with the public is one of the things that the Board has been trying to improve. Leah used to work for the local Salmon Arm radio station and free-lanced for all the Shuswap papers. She is very excited with her new position and promises to do a very good job of keeping the masses informed.