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News
On December 19th
A male showed up at his ex-girlfriend’s residence intoxicated and started acting up. The interaction escalated to an assault when the male choked his ex-girlfriend then fled the residence. The male was located by the RCMP, arreste...
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News
(Press release issued by the City of Williams Lake)
On Sunday December 18, the city fire department responded to a call at the Williams Lake Regional Airport.
At approximately 6:45pm, an aircraft on a scheduled flight to Vancouver was starting one of ...
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News
Williams Lake RCMP Inspector Warren Brown announced yesterday that there is a new Community Policing board, with Andy Sullivan as the new president.
Vice President of the new board is Bob Sunner, Donna Marie Cyr is the treasurer and Harriet Hird is the s...
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Arts & Entertainment
The second annual Celtic Ceilidh at the Legion on Saturday showcased stellar talent from Williams Lake and Quesnel. Hosted by the Williams Lake Pipes and Drums, the event provided treats like Scotch eggs, haggis and trifle and entertained the crowd with m...
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Local Politics
The Cariboo Chilcotin Conservation Society posed the following three questions to CRD and City Councillor candidates.
1. “Public surveys identified the Scout Island Nature Centre lands and nature house as very important assets to the people of William...
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Local Politics
(Press release from the City of Williams Lake)
The City’s Business Expansion and Attraction Task Force held its first meeting Wednesday morning and began the task of prioritizing recommendations from the Business Expansion and Attraction Strategy (BEAS...
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Local Politics
The Williams Lake & District Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors will be hosting two different municipal candidate forums in Williams Lake for the 2011 municipal election.
Historically the Chamber has organized and hosted All Candidates Forums...
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Local Politics
Shortly after 4:00pm on October 14, Chief Election Officer Cindy Bouchard, presented the 'Declaration of Candidates' which included three Mayoral nominees and 14 City Councillor hopefuls.
Nominations filed for the office of Mayor:
Walt Cobb
Kerry...
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Local Politics
The following nomination packages have been submitted and accepted by the Cariboo Regional District’s Chief Election Officer, Alice Johnston as of 4:00pm today. Further nominations are not permitted.
Area A - Red Bluff/Quesnel South/Kersley
Ted Arms...
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Elections
Submitted by Sue Zacharias, unedited.
I am excited to announce that I am seeking re-election for the position of Councillor for the City of Williams Lake.
I have enjoyed the last three years on City council and would like to continue the great work we h...
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Local Politics
I was pleasantly surprised with Premier Clark’s first Throne Speech last week because it contained more than just her “jobs strategy.” The Premier used the speech to highlight other issues on her agenda, such as improving access to information, the ...
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Local Politics
By LeRae Haynes
One of the topics at the Cariboo Regional District Board meeting on Friday was the exemption of the CRD portion of the 2012 property tax for the Forest Grove Legion. Director Art Dumaresq pointed out that all other Legions in the region g...
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Events
The inter-generational program at Cataline Elementary School and the Williams Lake Seniors Village had its official kick-off last week. The students will spend their school days at the Seniors Village for the month of October, sharing educational experien...
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Local Politics
Over the past few days, the Cariboo Regional District (CRD) was honoured with two prestigious awards at the Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) Conference and AGM which took place in Vancouver from September 26 to 30, 2011.
(CRD CEO Janis Bel...
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News
TD is predicting a significant increase in lumber prices by 2013 and has praised British Columbia's government for opening up new markets to counteract the slump in the U.S. housing market.
Leslie Preston, an economist at the TD banking group, stated tha...
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Local Politics
Williams Lake Mayor and Council have taken advantage of opportunities to meet with Provincial Cabinet Ministers while attending the Union of BC Municipalities Convention in Vancouver.
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Announcements
Cole and Allison Levitt are very excited to announce the arrival of Hudson David Levitt.
Hudson was born on July 23rd at Royal Inland Hospital weighing in at a whopping ten pounds.
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Local Politics
Bob Simpson's Musings
Last week Premier Christy Clark rolled out her “jobs plan” for BC. Labeled “Canada Starts Here,” the plan starts out stating BC is Canada’s “westernmost province” and “the first port of call for people and goods that...
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Local Politics
In Victoria today Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA Donna Barnett was appointed the Parliamentary Secretary for Rural communities.
MLA Barnett says her experience dealing with the effects of the pine beetle with the Pine Beetle Action Committee, as well as 18 ye...
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Local Politics
Bob Simpson's Musings
I ran in the Terry Fox event in Quesnel this year. It’s part of my effort to stop “decaying.” You see, my wife read a book to me this summer that claims that after 50 you start decaying unless you’re very deliberate about yo...
