News

During its Feb. 1 meeting Clearwater council approved a recommendation from director of finance Scott Coulson to apply for a $10,000 grant to undertake a road investment strategy planning study.

Thompson-Nicola Regional District has appointed members to committees for 2011.

Waste disposal is decreasing and recycling is increasing according to 2010 statistics compiled by the Thompson-Nicola Regional District.

The race is on for a group hoping to make history by running the first successful recall campaign in B.C. against an MLA.

Goodbye numbered mailboxes. Hello street addresses.

VICTORIA - Nominations for the Province’s highest recognition of excellence and lifetime achievement - the Order of British Columbia honor for 2011 - are now being accepted.

Clearwater RCMP Detachment’s new cadet arrived from Regina five months ago and is settling in nicely to his new role. Tyson Bruns, his wife Jenifer, and their two small children came from Langley. It will be another month before he is fully trained and on his own. We now have a very junior detachment, with the senior constable having just less than four years service, followed by a 2 1/2 year, 1 1/2 year, and a five months member.

A meeting of unionized Canfor-Vavenby workers on Sunday Feb. 6, overwhelmingly endorsed arrangements with the company designed to the local sawmill operation.

A suggestion that Clearwater and District Chamber of Commerce should drop its information desk at Wells Gray Infocenter didn’t get much support during a chamber meeting last Tuesday evening.