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Williams Lake City Council received a delegation from the Seniors Advisory Committee at their August 31st Committee of the Whole meeting. The intention of the delegation was to provide Council with information regarding the need for senior’s housing in Williams Lake and to request Council to commit to a plan for the old Cariboo Lodge site that provides senior’s housing opportunities.

By LeRae Haynes 

There was a ribbon cutting today in Horsefly to officially open a wheelchair-accessible trail that goes along the Horsefly River. The Horsefly River Roundtable in partnership with the CRD and the Horsefly Board of Trade, has remodeled, repaired and re-surfaced the existing trail, and are looking forward to the official opening this afternoon. 

The 1.5km newly-finished trail starts at the bridge in Horsefly and follows the river to the spawning channel, goes along the top of the channel, down through some big cottonwood trees, and ends back at the bridge.

On September 2nd, Alexis Creek RCMP were informed by a member of the public of a possible discovery of human remains in what is known as the Anaham Meadow, situated approximately 5 kilometres northeast of Alexis Creek, B.C. Haying was being conducted by a local resident in the area when he made the discovery.

Members of the Alexis Creek RCMP were led to the findings, which at this time appear to be and are being treated as human. At this time there is no evidence of foul play.

A City water main was damaged yesterday during installation of a new natural gas service to the Stampede Grounds.

The damaged occurred on the south side of Mackenzie Avenue near the Chuck’s Automotive complex while a gas line was being bored under Mackenzie Avenue.

ASIST Program Comes to the South Cariboo

The Cariboo Chilcotin Regional Hospital District received information from Interior Health (IH) regarding suicide prevention. This fall Interior Health will be partnering with the South Cariboo Suicide Prevention Advisory Committee to provide new programs for the south Cariboo. The partnership project is to provide the ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) Program in September this year, which will increase the community’s capacity to respond actively to persons at risk for suicide. World Suicide Prevention Day is Friday, September 10th.

A water main break has occurred on Mackenzie Avenue late this morning, resulting in the closure of Mackenzie Avenue to northbound traffic off Highway 20.

South bound traffic on Mackenzie if being re-routed through the Stampede Grounds.

Motorists are encouraged to avoid this area until such time as repairs are completed, which may take the remainder of the day.

Paving is currently underway in the area south of Oliver Street in the northbound lane.

• Milling has been completed all the way to the Highway 20 intersection and paving of the bottom lift will reach this point by Thursday.

Press Release

National, regional and local BC First Nations Chiefs today delivered a clear and unequivocal message to the federal government at the Ottawa National Press: The proposed Prosperity Mine in BC cannot be allowed to proceed.

If the federal government – whose decision could be announced as early as September 10, abandons its duty to reject this project, First Nations across BC and Canada will unite to defend against the project proceeding.

Tsilhqorin National Government chiefs, whose members' traditional lands would be impacted and whose sacred waters at Teztan Biny (Fish Lake) would be turned into a toxic tailing pond by the proposed mine, were today joined by the BC Assembly of First Nations' (AFN) Regional Chief Jody Wilson-Raybould, Union of BC Indian Chiefs Grand Chief Stewart Phillip and BC First Nations Summit Grand Chief Ed John at a news conference in Ottawa.

The BC SPCA is asking animal lovers to spare five minutes a day to help end the suffering of thousands of animals in B.C.

“Starting today, the BC SPCA has a chance to win $100,000 in the Pepsi Refresh Project, an online grant give-away program where individuals vote for their favourite community project,” explains Lorie Chortyk, general manager of community relations for the non-profit animal welfare society.  “We have applied to win $100,000 for a project to help end pet overpopulation in B.C.  Our project will provide low-cost spay/neuter operations for hundreds of animals across the province and will fund research to identify permanent solutions to the tragedy of pet overpopulation.”

By LeRae Haynes

Last night the Williams Lake Field Naturalists spoke to the Committee of the Whole at City Hall regarding the need for increased funding for Scout Island Nature Centre.

“The City has supported us well for the last several years, providing core funding for our staff, but we need an increase in that funding in order to pay staff and provide programs at Scout Island year-round,” stated Sue Hemphill from the Williams Lake Field Naturalists.